What Codec do you use for your Captures?

[LanEvo7]

I use PIC Video's MJPEG at quality 19.

[ImaWeTodd]

I use morgan because it supports dual machines. I'm thinkin about going back to PIC. I've had some strange problems (colors swapped) with Morgan (not often).

[thefox149]

Picvideo at 19.....

[alenhard]

Canopus DV

[TBoneit]

I'm tempted to say no compression but I seem to recall that DV Type 1 has some sort of compression??

Canopus ADVC-100 in use here.

[housepig]

Huffy all the way...

[divx2vcd]

For Editing I used CANOPUS DV CODEC.

For Just Conversion from AVI to MPEG I use Canopus MJPEG Codec. 8)

Any Better Codec You Can Suggest To Me.

[Yirkin]

I'm a huffy kind of guy.

[kees1952]

PICVideo MJPEG at quality 19.

Kees Janssen.

[marvel2020]

Pic Video at 20

[Will Hay]

For analogue I use the MJPEG PicVideo at 19/20, converting my DV home movies I crank it up to 20/20
Will

[monoxide77]

I use the Adaptec DVSoft Codec for DV capturing.

[Dragonsf]

I use the Adaptec DVSoft Codec for DV capturing.

How do you do that?My DV transfer programs don't allow the choice of a codec (which isn't really necessary, as DV is a file transport).

And yes, huffy in conjunction with VDub's noise filter gives perfect results.Sometimes look better than the original VHS tape.

[Craig Tucker]

Huffy for me, gives top quality captures

[SatStorm]

PicVideo 19 for most VHS
Huffyuv for analogue captures of good sources
XviD when I want to use my PC as a VCR!

[Hardcoreruss]

Huffy

[Gazorgan]

Huffy for under 1 hour and MJPEG for over. Only got 120 GB capture drive after all :P

[Sam Ontario]

Sorry for side threading!

I have an MSI TV@nywhere card. I downloaded Huffy and have no idea how to use it. Please help me how do I get Huffy to work with my capture card. Thanks.

My configuration: ASUS P4V533-X, 2.4G Celeron, 512MB DDR RAM, LG 16X DVD ROM LG 48x24x48 CD-RW, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, 20G Maxter + 80G Western Digital with 8MB Cache. Nvidia TNT2 32MB 4x Graphics Card. Windows 98 SE OS.

[Craig Tucker]

Have you installed it

To install Huffyuv, right click on huffyuv.inf and select "Install."

[indolikaa]

Sometimes huffster, but for the most part, I'm a uncompressed kinda guy.

[snowmoon]

Pic MJPEG at 18-19 ONLY because huffyuv is too much for my HD

[Sam Ontario]

Have you installed it

To install Huffyuv, right click on huffyuv.inf and select "Install."

I installed it but the Intervideo that came with my card was not using it to capture Hi8 inputs. How do I select it after install?

[spiderman2k1]

I use MPEG 2. I capture from satellite dish and VHS tape's and Laserdisc. I Use ATI AIW 8.1 and I also use a Dazzle 2. I use the software that it come's with

[Craig Tucker]

Have you installed it

To install Huffyuv, right click on huffyuv.inf and select "Install."

I installed it but the Intervideo that came with my card was not using it to capture Hi8 inputs. How do I select it after install?

Do you have virtualdub installed. If you click on video, compression you should see it along with your other video codecs if it is instaled properly.

[supatrupa]

I can't get Canopus DV codec to work in VDUB when trying to capture DV.

All I get is a grey image on my VDUB preview pane. I have DVD Studio 1 by Ulead, but it captures AVI Type-1, and I really need Type-2 to use TMPGEnc.

Any help appreciated.

[Craig Tucker]

Check the tools section I am sure there is a DV type1 to DV type2 converter there.

[Sam Ontario]

...Do you have virtualdub installed. If you click on video, compression you should see it along with your other video codecs if it is instaled properly.

VirtualDub cannot find my MSI TV@nywhere, says no capturing device!

[spectroelectro]

The poll ought to have an option to vote for Mainconcept DV codec. I used to use Huffyuv but now mostly use the Mainconcept codec I bought for $50. Worth every penny, does a great job. Can't tell the TMPG-encoded DVDs captured with Mainconcept DV from the older DVDs captured with Huffyuv.

[willy_annand]

Huffy all the way...

100% agreement here Housepig.

The quality cannot be beat.

[willy_annand]

Have you installed it

To install Huffyuv, right click on huffyuv.inf and select "Install."

I installed it but the Intervideo that came with my card was not using it to capture Hi8 inputs. How do I select it after install?

Do you have virtualdub installed. If you click on video, compression you should see it along with your other video codecs if it is instaled properly.

Isn't there something about having to be in YUV format as certain formats are not compatible?