VirtualDub capture - cutting bottom of screen

[Baltazar]

Ok, I've reinstalled my W2k and wanted to capture some stuff from my VCR with VirtualDub.

Theese are my settings:
* Video/Format: 640x480 - Video/Compression: UYVY
* Video/Source: Nvidia WDM video capture (universal) - Videosource: Composit
* Video/Compression: PICVideo MJPEG Codec
* Video/Set custom video format: 640x480 - UYVY - YUV 4:2:2 interleaved
* Capture/Settings: Frame rate 25.000 (PAL)

I'd like to capture in 640x480 since I'm going to make an DivX .avi

My problem is:
* VirtualDub is cutting the bottom line so only the upper row of the sub is showing.
* When trying to capture, I have a huge amount of dropped frames.

I have: ACE.Mega.Codec.Pack.5.93.Professional.Edition installed
and: P4, 2.4GHz, MSI G4 Ti4400 gfxcard

Can someone help me please.

[FOO]

I think you need to capture at xxx by 576 for PAL .
Vdub doesn't have native WDM support.
Can you find a VFW driver for your capture card ?

[Baltazar]

I think you need to capture at xxx by 576 for PAL .

* I can only choose XXX x max480 for PAL.

Vdub doesn't have native WDM support.
Can you find a VFW driver for your capture card ?

* Where can I find the VFW driver for my capture card?

[Baltazar]

I solved this shit.....

I installed iuVCR and VirtualDub is running correct.

Can someone tell me why the heck I needed to install iuVCR in order to get VirtualDub running?

Thanks!

[FOO]

You probably got a free VFW driver or WDM wrapper with it

[Baltazar]

But where can I find it?

Also I need to run iuVCR everytime before running VirtualDub else I have the same earlier problem.

Also, I have no sound when capturing, why?

[Gazorgan]

VDUB sucks for capturing, IUVCR is better(native WDM).

No sound because you haven't selected which sound device to use....your sound card or your capture device (there's 2 ). Also, make sure it's not muted in your sound control panel.

[Baltazar]

Ok, I have the sound now and using iuVCR instead, but...

30GB capturing for 1 hour with my above settings, isn't that unbelieveble much of diskspace?

[FOO]

That adds up if you used MJPEG or Huffy

[Baltazar]

Yes PICVideo MJPEG Codec.

Can I use something else to reduce the amount of diskspace?

[FOO]

It doesn't matter. If you want a DVD you have to encode to MPEG2,
which is small , and then you can delete the AVI.

[Baltazar]

No, I'm justing capturing for burning a regular DivX . avi file to be burnt on a CDR..

Also I have fuzzy lines when there are a lot of fast motion in the captured file, why?

[Ejoc]

You can make the file smaller by lowering the quality in the picvideo mjpeg configuration, corse I see loss running it at 19 and try to use Huffyuv by default.

[Gazorgan]

Those lines are from Interlacing. They won't appear on a TV, but you can see them on a computer monitor. DivX 5 is supposed to support interlacing, but you can see the problem. Generally speaking, you want to de-interlace before encoding.

Typically in VDUB for a DivX final product of a capture you de-interlace, resize (if needed, not for you), crop (if needed, see Mask), Mask (usually helps with the tearing form over/under scan lines at top/bottom), filter as needed (sparkles, static), and color correct (typically tape issue). Then encode away. I always reccomend 2-pass DivX/XviD because the results really show over CBR.