"capture cropped video" - What does this mean?

[PlasticDVDr]

For anyone who has an AIW card using MMC, what does "Capture cropped video" do?

[Sulik]

It removes [crops] the overscan area of the screen, which is typically either black or noise. It avoids wasting bitrate on invisble parts of the screen.

You should only enable it with MMC 8.1+, as older versions would make the file not compliant for VCD/SVCD/DVD burning.

[lordsmurf]

I use MMC 8.1, and it'll capture at 338x448 (on 352x480 with cropping), which makes the video non-compliant.

Sulik, how? I saw your review of MMC, and it left me scratching my head... I'm curious what you did.

Even if I did get it to work, "cropping" stretches video, which I'm not always fond of. I normally prefer to "mask" or "clip" the overscan with black mask. But neither MMC nor any other capture program does that, only encoders/editors like Premiere, Procoder, MainConcept, and TMPGEnc. Though, cropping does have it uses when the overscanning or other errors bleed onto the screen!