Which a better quality capture codec?

[Jeomite]

I was wondering which is a better codec to capture if I'm aiming for the best possible quality.

PicVideo Codec - 20 Quality Setting
VS
Huffy Codec - Predict Gradient

I understand that you will be a good comp to acheive these quality settings without losing tons of frames. I would think a 1.33Ghz AMD Athlon with 256MB DDR Ram would be sufficent power for either capture methods...

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[oldfart13]

I have a frend with a similar system. The AMD gives him nothing but problems with his ATI Radeon 64 Meg card. I have an ATI All In Wonder 128 16 Meg AGP and have no problems at all. We've traced the terrible frame drop problem (as much as 30% on captures) directly to the AMD chip. Hope you're capturing with something other than an ATI. My system uses an Intel PIII 1GHz and gives superb captures.

[Jeomite]

Thanks for the tip. But I was just mainly curious which codec would be best for quality capturing... PicVideo Quality @ 20 or Huffy?

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[wildcatfan]

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On 2001-07-21 19:13:09, oldfart13 wrote:
I have a frend with a similar system. The AMD gives him nothing but problems with his ATI Radeon 64 Meg card. I have an ATI All In Wonder 128 16 Meg AGP and have no problems at all. We've traced the terrible frame drop problem (as much as 30% on captures) directly to the AMD chip. Hope you're capturing with something other than an ATI. My system uses an Intel PIII 1GHz and gives superb captures.
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Sounds more like a driver issue with the chipset. Tell him to change his drivers around and try different versions. Unfortunately the drivers that come with windows are really tuned more for intel chipsets IMO.

Michael

[JOHNinLBC]

I have used both codecs with my 2nd computer witch is a 466 celeron with 32megs ram I like both but using them with VDUB I get the best capture with hardly any dropped frames less than 5 percent total. The Huff to me is the best I have had almost perfect captures using it at 320 x 240 VCD format. I think the best way to test is try capturing EMPIRE S BACK there you will be able to tell in the first 30 mins from all of the color in the snow scene etc. But either way they are both good.