Does DC10+ Capture 352 x 240 ?

[Gabriel_Brazil]

Dear Friends,

I think this is the main forum on the internet about VCD, so, here I go. I´m using VDub to capture video on my DC10+ Pinnacle Card, but when I set the format to 352 x 240, the image is cut . I just get successfully capturing with 320 x 240. Any solution about that ?

I have a PIII 600 Mhz 256RAM HD15Gb Quantum Fireball UDMA66.

Thanks a LOT ...

[danylab]

Hi,

Well, it's a well documented fact that the dc10+ is a good card... with it's limitation. No, it won't capture a the exact resolution of vcd. TMPGenc will resize it to the standard and you won't see much a of a difference then having cap at 352x240.

I've been using studio 1.06 on W98SE and was caping at 320x240 one field. Now, with XP and studio 7, I use the template VideoCD. The cap is done at 304x464 2 fields (it's 320x480 2fields with the option crop selectioned).

TMPGenc has no problems converting that format and the results are quite good (option "slow"). VCD is not DV or dvd, but, when well processed, I find it quite acceptable. TMPGenc is still better than the Studio 7 vcd encode.

Hope it help.

danylab

[Gabriel_Brazil]

Dear friend,

I just don´t capt with 320 x 480 because it generates too many dropped frames.
I´ll try to capt with 320 x 240.
Thank you very much ... :D

[danylab]

I had a PC with similar spec and was not dropping frames at 640x480 (about 6.7megs/sec). No problem at all at 320x240. The only time it did was between some takes, when I saw "snow", then I would see the dropped frame counter increase. Otherwise, very good performance. At 320x240, it will generate a stream of about 1.2meg/sec, your hard disk should have not problem taking that. Check the usual. Clean system, not anti-virus running, defrag your drive, DMA enabled, etc.

Good luck!

danylab