Capturing straight to MPEG2 with AIW 8500

[boogie]

Has anyone burned a good DVD from capturing straight MPEG2 from AIW 8500 from VHS tapes.

If yes, How?
If no, Why not.

ANy answers will help.

[vhelp]

boogie,

Obvisouly I don't capture in real-time. I've ben their and done it all.
I've concluded that to get any really good quality encodes, will have
to come from an AVI capture. By that, you have to capture at 352x480.
That is all you'll ever need. I'm sure you've D/L'ed a few of my VCD
samples and I now have CVD sample too, but I don't know how long
I'll keep that up cause I'm always deleteing and adding newer capture
sample clips almost daily or so. Anyways...

If you REALLY want better looking VCDs etc. then you MUST capture to
AVI, using 352x480 as your min. resolution setting. I see you have a
1.8g XP system. Good. You should NOT have any problems capturing at
352x480 to AVI using huffy codec in either AVI_IO or VDUB. Both these
champs will allow you to cap at these settings. As far as I know, AVI_IO
doesn't allow for 48k audio capturing, but vdub does, and this is what
I use now, for my captures, maily for CVD projects, else I set
to 44k.

I've done/gone the real-time and hardware route. I've used my WinTV PVR usb
and learned how to adjust the bitrate (which by the way, I shared w/ this
FORUM some time ago, but I do believe it's still availble on my website)
It's a .reg file to load befoe you start WinTV PVR and is only use for
the USB models. I've done many DVD-to-SVCD with this .reg adjustment
and my WinTV PVR usb, but later on down the road, I found that I actually
didn't like the quality of these CDs I went and made for almost all my
DVDs. I was on a role at the time (being it was my new toy) and I went
on making SVCDs of them. Later on, I started watching some of them, and
that's when I found those nasty blocks. I was pissed, but releaved at
the same time. Later, I went to VHS, cause in the end, you already have
the DVD (or VHS) so you just create VCD or SVCD or my favorite, CVD's.
If you really want quality, you just pop in YOUR dvd. ...unless it's not
YOUR dvd in the first place - - - I try to promote VHS-to-VCD cause
the price different is so greate, $5 vs. $20 - - you VHS, you do what
YOU want with it, even make a VCD of it, so it'll last and continue to give
you good quality. . .

However, if time is criticle for you, than real-time is your better
solution. But, that's YOUR comprimise. . . real-time vs. hardware vs.
AVI.

VHS ($5) :
Comes out great for me. I don't need to buy $20 DVDs though I have a
hefty stock of them, and even a number of duplicates ie, VHS and DVD of
the same movie. That's ok w/ me cause I'm usually am doing some test
comparison or something too.
I have people that will ask me for a copy for their own. I always tell
them, "give me $5 (for the VHS) and I'll burn you a VCD" Then, I give
them the VHS (cause it's theirs, member the $5 bucks?) and the VCD disk.
They are always satisfied with whatever I give them.

Home-made VHS stuff:
like, VHS-C or 8mm or some form of VHS camcorder are another story.
These are harder to encode w/ just as good quality. Why? cause they are
subject to 29.970 framerate and are interlaced. But, raising the birate
will give good results. I've done a few, and they come out good.

boogie, if you wanna make good VHS-to-DVDs, well... you're not gonna
be too satisfied, cause VHS is approx 352x240 resolution vs. DVD being
720x480. Theirs nothing wrong with encoding a VHS (after you capture
it) and loading up a DVD template in tmpg and encoding as a DVD, but
you wont get DVD quality!! Only VHS at best cause again, VHS is approx
352x240 resolution.

well, that's about it for me.
-vhelp
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[boogie]

Thanks V!

I tried to to burn a good DVD and a no go! The quality is not there. I guess you will never get a good DVD from a poor quality VHS

By the way do you run this site? YOu are the only one answering my questions. LOL..

NAncy

[vhelp]

Morning boogie,

>> By the way do you run this site?
No, Sir Baldrick runs this site

-vhelp

[boogie]

well, you should definetly be on the board!

NAncy

[plundstr20]

I always capture in MPEG-2 at 720x576 with a bitrate of between 7-10 and then re-encode that into MPEG-1 VCD... I don't find the result all that bad actually...

[offline]

Thanks V!
I guess you will never get a good DVD from a poor quality VHS

You can.. it just requires advanced digital resampling and filtering equipment.