Asus AGP V7700 Deluxe woes...

[robiwan]

Havin' gone through hell (as being a Win2K user) I finally got the capture to work (nVidia V1.0.8.0 in Asus drivers version 56.72 and a lot of info gathered here during the 3-day incubation, thanx!!)
Anyway, what I want to do is capture from a camcorder (Hi8) at 25fps (PAL,pref 720x576) and that seems to work OK (no frames dropped, and a helluva datarate). BUT!!! (single T)
When viewing the resultant video, scan lines become extremely noticable!! (especially when the picture is moving, a "still" looks OK). Does anyone out there know a remedy for this or is this a "well-you-shouldn't-expect-more-from-a-crappy-card-like-that" kind of thing ?? I mean, the overlay looks good, shouldn't I be able to expect the corresponding quality from a capture?

TIA
/Rob

[SatStorm]

Those lines you see, are natural. They are the interlace lines.
You won't see them after you burn your project on your DVD-R and watch it with your DVD Standalone on any TV.

Those lines are always there, but you don't see them. They are visable only on PC monitors, because monitors output progressive and DV/Hi8/VHS/SVHS are interlace...

[lenti_75]

did you watch it on pc or tv ?

if was the tv, then when you encoded the file, you chose the wrong "field order". usually, that is "bottom first", and you should keep it that way. if is "upper first" then keep it that way too.

if it was on pc (monitor is progressive, not interlaced) , just burn it, and you should be fine.

[videofun]

Hi,
if you watch it on your computer screen then it's simply interlace lines as already has been mentioned, so don't worry about them if you're going to watch the clip on TV. Here is a good link http://www.100fps.com/ with info and pics about what is interlacing and the deinterlacing methods.

[robiwan]

Thanx to all! I did watch the result on PC screen, so your suggestions will probably fix it.
I'm currently using VirtualDub with direct (no compression) capture to AVI (720x576@25fps). Should I capture with AsusDVCR directly to MPEG-2 instead when preparing to burn to DVD, or is the .avi also usable when authoring the DVD?

[Muppet Meat]

You shouldnt see those lines on a pc unless you edited it and exported it with the wrong field order. Capture directly to DV AVI and view it with your media player and you shouldnt see lines because your media player plays it in progressive mode. If you got past this point next thing is to convert it to .m2v or .mpv (MPEG2) When you preview your MPEGs you shouldnt see lines either because your media player plays it in progressive mode.
So many people have this interlace problem with Vdub capturing. My advice is use a decent capture tool like ScenalyzerLive and preview your avi and mpeg with Media Player Classic to assure you have the field order correct and capture with a firewire and firewire port always not USB because it for photo cameras, printers and mp3 players. Dont be fooled into thinking USB is ok for capturing just because your video camera came with a USB cord like mine did.