3dFX 3500 - Any Success with SVCD

[flatlander]

I have a good system with the voodoo 3500 video card. I have made okay VCD's using vdub captures at 322x240. While I havent had time to play around with vdub much yet 480x480 captures drop 10% of the frames with or without any codec's. regardsless, assuming I get that to work does any one know if the 3500 will in fact provide a 480x480 signal to capture?

THe cards native capture format is only 320x480, but stills resolution is 640x480.

Any hints on how to make good SVCD's with this card would be apprieciated.

1.4 athlon
256 DDR
40Gig 7200 RPM ata100

[stephenland]

FlatLander,

I have a setup similar to you and am running WinXP. I'm hoping that the new, promised drivers from X3dfx will allow a higher resolution capture using the VooDoo video capture. I just bought Pinnacle Studio 7 but so far the results are less than steller. If you get any tips, I'd appreciate hearing them.

Stephen

[djmorgan]

stephenland: don't hold your breath on X3dfx the drivers will not address any capture problems.

All; the core to the 3dfx capture is the vfw drivers these are 'video for windows' and as the original 3DFX had a world market to supply to, they did not get it right consequently the PAL and NTSC formats got a little merged.

AS 3DFX is gone (cry) we have no hope to get it fixed, however the 3500 is a very good capture card with bad software.

Yes you can do stunning SVCD's as well as great VCD's I am in the pal system so I can tell you the Ulead range of programs do not capture well using VFW drivers.

What I have found to work is the 3500 VCR app and then Ulead or other 3rd party app to resize.

OR capture *.avi using Virtualdub and convert using TMPNC.... whatever

AS to frame loss, you will get some the bigger size you try to capture, for my money capturing using Virtualdub at 480x576 in .avi produces no lost frames - I do have an AMD 700 cpu, 384 meg memory and 2 7200 rpm HD's

a 10% frame drop is acceptable and you'll not notice it capture to your HD with no codec and then put back through Virtualdub with you filters applied