Software Recommendations for Capturing MPEG2

[scienceguy_4]

Hi, I'm looking for easy to operate software to capture video in a physics experiment. My capture card is a NI PCI-1410 and it's connected to a Sony XC-HR70 camera. I've tried using Capture Flux but it wouldn't recognize the incoming video stream and the capturing software that came with the card can only capture still images. Sound isn't important. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[aedipuss]

if the card came with the recommended software - http://www.graftek.com/pages/visionBuilderAI.htm

it should export as avi which you can then encode to mpeg-2 if you wish.

[scienceguy_4]

I don't have the Vision Builder AI package, just the IMAQ PCI-1410 and NI IMAQ drivers and configuration utility. The camera and card have been installed fine but I'm unable to detect it as a video source in any program I've tried so far.

[edDV]

What is this "14pin EIAJ" connector. This thing looks like monochrome VGA. What hardware do you use to capture this? Brochure says it is 1024x768 at 23.23 or 29FPS progressive.
http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/astro/optada/pages/sesame/xchr58.pdf
http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=XC-HR70&site=biz_en_GB&page...&category=Prog

[scienceguy_4]

The capture card is a NI PCI-1410. The hardware setup is working fine, in the calibration utility the video streams cleanly and it's possible to grab still images easy enough. The main problem seems to be in finding a capturing program to that will recognize it as a video source.

[aedipuss]

you may be able to set the output from the card to ieee1394 camera with the imaq driver config. then some software might be able to acquire the video.

[scienceguy_4]

The camera outputs a non-standard analog format, that is to say it isn't firewire compatible (as far as I know). Is it possible that most programs just don't support the format the HR-70 uses and so won't accept it as a video source? I'll certainly try exploring the configuration utility again but I'm not particularly optimistic about being able to change the signal type as it seems to be rather picky about these things. It may be relevant to note that the programs I've tried at this point are capture flux, virtualdub, and the debut video recorder.

[edDV]

The camera outputs a non-standard analog format, that is to say it isn't firewire compatible (as far as I know). Is it possible that most programs just don't support the format the HR-70 uses and so won't accept it as a video source? I'll certainly try exploring the configuration utility again but I'm not particularly optimistic about being able to change the signal type as it seems to be rather picky about these things. It may be relevant to note that the programs I've tried at this point are capture flux, virtualdub, and the debut video recorder.

The camera outputs progressive frames. I don't know the mentioned software. Premiere is good for converting progressive frame sequences to video and has been doing so for animations for years. Other programs can as well.