dc10 capturing a bad quality video, is this card really good

[EP10]

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On 2000-11-03 03:15:00, Big Chris wrote:
1. I capture 720x540 25fps at a video datarate of 2520 kbps and Audio at "CD" Qulity. This gives a "disk" datarate of 5213K /s.

2. I then use TMPGEnc to convert to XVCD (352x288 at 25 fps video datarate 2520 kbps) This looks superb.

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Does converting from 720x540 to 325x288 make a video look "smaller"? People look smaller and higher then in the original 720x540.

Or is this only so on PC and perfect on a TV?

I used VirtualDub to resise from 720x540 to 325x288 and also useed TMPGEnc to convert (VCD)

[neto]

All you have to do is to increase the data rate of capture, this wont' make big blocks, in NTSC format the maxium compression is 3:1 which is a very good quality. I use VirtualDub to capture because the soft included with the card is some bad, and then i edit with premiere 5 and export to MPG with the LinktoAvisyth using TMPEnc. it looks great in VCD and SVCD.

[Anonymous65]

What kind of drivers do you use to capture AVI with Vdub and the DC10+ card? I thought this card was a non-avi card with no support for VFW or WDM.

[EP10]

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On 2000-11-02 23:22:00, JHebert wrote:
What compression setting are you using? I think the DC10 goes up to a max of 3:1 compression or about 6MB/sec at 640x480.
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Correct. Only a SCSI-rive can go higher.

Anyone tried if PicVideo's MJPEG work's with the DC10+?
Or any other codec besides it's own hardware MJPEG?