Capturing a Boxing Match

[bgrieb]

I like to watch a lot of Boxing and it is sometimes very high speed. I usually capture the video using Virtualdub on my Ati TV Wonder at 320 x 240 before converting to an MPG with TMPGenc.

Believe it or not, I'm quite pleased with this card and I'm not looking to replace it. I've gotten better at tweaking it and I could use a little help to go further.

I love the quality of not compressing the stream but I don't have enough hard drive space (20 Gigs of NTFS) to record a night of fights (2+ hours). I used to use YUY2, but I recently have been using 24bit RGB and it tends to make a clearer picture. From there, I'm playing around with codecs. If I use DivX and set the file size to 10 (MB/s?), the quality is pretty good, but I'd like to experiment with a higher file size. Is there a codec that will allow me to set a size above 10? I'd like to go as high as 20 or 30 if possible.

Any other suggestions for capturing high speed videos?

Thanks.

BG

[ronnylov]

Try a mjpeg codec like picvideo or morgan. With a good quality setting you can probably fit 4-6 hours of video on 20 GB with your resolution.

[bgrieb]

Thanks. I've installed PicVideo and I'll try the MJPeg codec for this weekends fight.

BG