capture and broadcast software?

[blader18]

hi guys =)
How can i capture a video and broadcasting it in divx or xvid so i can get a good qualitity with 1mb upload? i already have a software that does it but in another extension so it's not very good...
can you help me???
cheers

[guns1inger]

What sort of video ?
From what source ?
What are your actual PC specs (your computer details are, well, inadequate) ?

[blader18]

its from a set box with a scart plug. i already can see it and have sound in pc but i only have the problem of the software. my pc is very good. 3GHZ, 2GB Ram,...

[guns1inger]

So you have a capture card ?
What card ?
What software ?

No details ? No good answer. The more you give us, the better the answers you get will be.

[blader18]

it's a geovision 800-4.

[guns1inger]

That is a DVR card for a security system. It is designed to capture from CCTV cameras. Aside from the fact it is not designed to capture broadcast signals, it is unlikely to be supported by the usual array of capture software.

[blader18]

i know but i already have been able to broadcast. i just want to do the same with a better codec...

[guns1inger]

The problem is to do that you need software that can recognise the card. These cards tend to be closed systems with specific software that is designed just for those cards, and compression that is based around the quality of the image coming in. The quality is often not very good.

The most basic place to start would be virtualdub. See if it can see the card and capture from it.

The other thing to understand is that Divx/Xvid are very highly compressed formats. The best quality is achieved by doing Constant Quality based encoding, but you have no control over the file size. If you want a predictable filesize then you need to do bitrate based encoding, and the best quality comes from doing two pass encodes. You cannot do two pass encodes while capturing.

[blader18]

actually im thinking about to buy another aquisition board to do this. do you think i could do that with xvid?

[guns1inger]

Personally, I would never capture directly to Divx/Xvid, because quality is the most important thing to me, and neither will deliver it during capturing unless you go for large file sizes. And if that is the case, there are better formats to capture to. The other issue is re-encoding. Multiple encoding of lossy compressed files quickly causes degradation and damage.

Your aim appears to to be to capture televisions programs, compress them and then upload them. Putting aside the legality or otherwise of such pursuits, the best option is not to use a settop box, but to get a capture card that has a tuner built in so you can just grab the digital streams and encode from there. I grab mpeg2 digital streams from FTA and then use AutoGK to encode them to Divx for my personal collection.

Otherwise just by a cheap USB capture dongle that supports Divx in software, and live with the mediocre quality you are likely to get.

[blader18]

hi there again. i already have another capture device and i am using a software called supervideocap. do you know it?? do you know any other software like this?? this one is not bad but when i seeing the video in another computer, even in my home inside my network the quality isn't that good in moving scenes... can you help me??
cheers =)

[lordsmurf]

What are you capturing to?

[DarrellS]

I actually liked capturing straight to DivX 6.8 when I had my ATI AIW installed. My old 3.2Ghz P4 was plenty fast enough to capture DivX. With the newer versions of Virtualdub, I never had to recode when I edited out the commercials. Using Smart Render made editing a breeze.

All the newer cards have pretty much made this technic extinct since they mostly capture to MPEG.

[blader18]

What are you capturing to?

can you explain your question?? =)

[blader18]

I actually liked capturing straight to DivX 6.8 when I had my ATI AIW installed. My old 3.2Ghz P4 was plenty fast enough to capture DivX. With the newer versions of Virtualdub, I never had to recode when I edited out the commercials. Using Smart Render made editing a breeze.

All the newer cards have pretty much made this technic extinct since they mostly capture to MPEG.

but how can I broadcast with quality?? vdub can't do it, can it??

[DarrellS]

I have no idea what you mean when you say broadcasting.

Like I said, I used an ATI All In Wonder card which used it's own MMC capture software. Not sure which version I used but it was at least 9.xx.

I know nothing about your capture devices or whether they can capture quality video at all.

[blader18]

I have no idea what you mean when you say broadcasting.

Like I said, I used an ATI All In Wonder card which used it's own MMC capture software. Not sure which version I used but it was at least 9.xx.

I know nothing about your capture devices or whether they can capture quality video at all.

for broadcast i mean a program that allow me to watch what i am capturing anywhere...

[guns1inger]

You need to be more specific. Anywhere how ? As a portable file ? As a streaming video ? On your TV ? On your iPod ?

[lordsmurf]

What are you capturing to?

can you explain your question?? =)

Umm ... no.

It's pretty much self explanatory. If not, you have some reading to do.

[blader18]

What are you capturing to?

can you explain your question?? =)

Umm ... no.

It's pretty much self explanatory. If not, you have some reading to do.

im sorry =)
i want to watch in my pc but anywhere....outside home =)

[guns1inger]

So you want to stream the video across the internet ?

You need to set your home PC up as a web server, assuming you have a suitable connection. TVersity can do this by transcoding to flv on the fly. How you set up your PC, your router, and if your ISP will allow this is another question.

Because TVsersity converts on the fly, you can simply encode your files as Divx (or whatever you like that holds reasonable quality for the size).

[blader18]

So you want to stream the video across the internet ?

You need to set your home PC up as a web server, assuming you have a suitable connection. TVersity can do this by transcoding to flv on the fly. How you set up your PC, your router, and if your ISP will allow this is another question.

Because TVsersity converts on the fly, you can simply encode your files as Divx (or whatever you like that holds reasonable quality for the size).

yeah that's what i want and i a ver a home pc as a server always on =)
i just have one doubt, with this software how do i choose the capture device??
tks =)

[SHS]

Your best option is to take look at SageTV Media Center which also a Media Server with SageTV Placeshifter and there are other option depend on what you want to steam to and best of all it allow you to do way more then TVersity

[guns1inger]

So you want to view the footage as you capture it ? Remotely ?

[blader18]

So you want to view the footage as you capture it ? Remotely ?

yes, that's it