resolution for capturing to avi?

[drewson99]

I want to cap from a dvd source, but when I try to cap to avi at 720x480 I can only get about a half hour to my 40GB hard drive. Is something wrong? Do I need to use that high a resolution for a high quality cap?

Andy

[Mirror_Image]

Do I need to use that high a resolution for a high quality cap?

That all depends on what you mean by "high quality".

[drewson99]

something that I can re-encode to mpeg2 for dvd authoring, with a quality near dvd or higher.

I guess what I am wondering is, people always say to cap to avi, do they really all have 200Gb drives or is there an avi that takes up less space? like I said above, my aiw7500 caps avi at 35GB per half hour or so.

Andy

[Craig Tucker]

You can use huffyuv compression which is lossless, this will reduce your filesize down to about 40GB per hour for that res, and yes if you want to capture in avi yuy2 you do need lots of hard drive space, I have 310GB. By the way is there any reason you are capturing from a DVD rather than ripping the vobs.

Craig

[drewson99]

cuz I used to rip to vcd and had no problem, now that I am doing it for dvd I can't get it to work and I'm fed up. I did a sample of the matrix (scene where they bust into that building) and it looks great, so I am going to do it the easy way. I have been using mpeg2 to cap at 15000kbps, then use tmpgenc to get down to dvd size.

Andy

[fmctm1sw]

You can use huffyuv compression which is lossless, this will reduce your filesize down to about 40GB per hour for that res, and yes if you want to capture in avi yuy2 you do need lots of hard drive space, I have 310GB. By the way is there any reason you are capturing from a DVD rather than ripping the vobs.

Craig

I'm having issues with this too. If I capture at SVCD res, how much can I fit on my 40GB drive? BTW, what is a VOB?

[Craig Tucker]

Taken from this site

DVD File/Folder Structure

Explanation:

. BUP = Backup files of the IFO files.

. IFO = The IFO files includes information such as chapters, subtitle tracks and audio tracks.

.VOB = The VOB files contains the actual video,audio,subtitles and menus.

Folder Files Explanation
AUDIO_TS (undefined) DVD Audio
VIDEO_TS VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
The first video play item, IFO, usally a copyright notice or a menu
VIDEO_TS.VOB The first video play item, VOB
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO Title 01, IFO, usually the main movie
VTS_01_0.VOB Title 01, VOB 0, the menu for this title
VTS_01_1.VOB Title 01, VOB 1, the video for this title
VTS_01_2.VOB Title 01, VOB 2, if larger than 1 GB it will be splitted into several vobs
VTS_01_3.VOB Title 01, VOB 3
VTS_01_4.VOB Title 01, VOB 4, up to 10(0-9) VOB files if necassary
VTS_02_0.BUP
VTS_02_0.IFO Title 02, IFO, usually movie extras
VTS_02_0.VOB Title 02, VOB 0, the menu for this title
VTS_02_1.VOB Title 02, VOB 1, the video for this title
VTS_xx_x.BUP
VTS_xx_x.IFO And so on
VTS_xx_x.VOB
VTS_xx_x.VOB
VTS_99_9.VOB Up to 99(1-99) titles with max 10(0-9) VOB files each

[fmctm1sw]

thanks, now I've read a DVD resolution captured as a non compressed AVI file will get me about 40 minutes (?) on my 40GB drive. If I capture at SVCD res, how many minutes can I capture? In other words, do I need to scrap my 40GB drive and get a bigger one?