Great 480x480 capturing

[VIDEOHOUND]

Last nite I took some advice off the Posts here and got MemTurbo and freed up my RAM, scrubbed it up. I then loaded new "unload DLL" key in the windows explorer registry and defragged my hard drive. After doing this I was able to copy 480x480 29.97fps video with "Planar Mpeg Raw" without a single drop of frames. The resulting files were beautiful, looked even better than my 36 inch Panasonic HDTV. I did all this using VirtualDub. Audio settings were at mpeg3 44khz. Afterwards I even tried compressing some of the files with DIVX 4.0 and ran it back thru TMPGenc and it was still beautiful, I have never seen so much clarity before, copies were from VHS tapes.

I do have a question though, if I am copying with what is called "Planar MPEG raw" why does the file come out has a AVI and not a MPG or MPEG. I noticed that the resulting size of the files were just a little bit bigger using Planar instead of VCR1 from ATI in VirtualDub.

[hitechjunkie]

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On 2001-09-05 05:29:57, VIDEOHOUND wrote:
I do have a question though, if I am copying with what is called "Planar MPEG raw" why does the file come out has a AVI and not a MPG or MPEG.
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good question! here's some info i found which best summarizes the answer:

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The central thing to remember here is that AVI files are merely a standard wrapper around hundreds of different formats of audio and video data. To play an AVI file you need both the AVI player (for example, Microsoft's Media Player as shipped with Windows 95 and 9 and the relevant codec files to decompress the formats of audio and video in the file.</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>

so, what you've got is audio/video wrapped in AVI and compressed, packed and/or stored in the "YUV12 Planar (MPEG Raw)" format.

[VIDEOHOUND]

So in other words the capture file is not really mpeg has it would lead one to believe by the naming convention of this particular format. By the way, the page with the information you gave is excellent. A wealth of information.
Thanks for the help with this.