advice for DirecTV capturing

[Operationz]

themamboman, christ that's alot of steps!! but the quality is well worth it I'm sure. after last night's v-dub fiasco, I don't think I'm gonna end up using it now. so I busted out my copy of cyberlink's powervcr and captured enterprise at 640X480, 2mb/s, 224 for the audio, with 2 out of the 3 advanced video features checked. (sorry I don't remember which ones I checked) the results were great! it worked flawlessly and my only complaint was the brightness level was a bit low but quickly remedied. I think I'll use this for the time being; wish it had a pause feature though!
editing commercials blows donkey balls! themamboman, does womblempeg2vcr do a good job at cutting them out? right now I'm using tmpgenc's merge/cut feature and it works but it's quite tedious!

[SilentRAGE]

if you got time to spend tape the dtv to a mini dv in ur digital camcorder, then firewire the sucker in the pc, bingo perfect quality, but takes time...oh well if you wanna wait and spend the time the results are good.

[p®è§+ïgé]

Kwulabear:

ouch.. re-encoding mpeg2 to mpeg2: applying a lossy compression to an already lossy format. the loss from re-encoding is more than if you captured straight to 480x480. the best way to cap. would be to use huffYUV and then encode that to a 480x480 SVCD-compliant stream. ATI's "software assisted hardware mpeg encoding" basically means "software-based encoding". remember: the more time that is taken to encode a video/audio stream generally means a better picture in the end. RT mpeg capture is nice, but only with the proper hardware, and ATI's solution is far from proper mpeg capturing hardware. Yes, encoding will take a 1.5GHz AMD about 40 hours to encode a 2 hour movie from huffYUV into mpeg2, but if quality is what you're going for, then that's the way to do it. if you're just looking to capture in RT and not care about quality, then what you're (your dad rather) doing is just fine.

[leisjk]

If I understand things correctly, the info comes from the sky in an MPG2 compressed format. Is there no hardware which can sit between the satellite receiver and a PC to move MPG2 onto a hard disk ? Then we could just convert and burn using Nero and the like. Any such device available ??

thks 4 your help.

Jim

[VideoGuy]

Check the new line of digital capture cards....

http://www.hauppauge.com/

Specifically:
http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/html/wintv-d.pdf

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm (See: WinTV Digital TV receiver products)

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/dvb_s.htm


HTH!

[gadget]

hey operationz, aren't you the one with powervcr 3 and who says we won't be disappointed if we use this program. Now why are trying to convert you avi files to mpeg1 or mpeg2? Aren't you happy with your powervcr3?

[Operationz]

gadget, I'm not converting any .avi files at all.
I'm capturing straight to mpeg2 with powervcr 3.
virtualdub was just too much bullshit (30+ hour conversions)
besides, the quality I get is hardly noticeable from a huffyuv converted avi