Using Canopus ADVC-1394 - can't get a 720x480 cap...

[psantucc]

Or at least, my windows applications show it as 360x240.

I have captured via WinDv, Winproducer, and Vegas Video 3.0LE. The files thus produced all play in Windows Media Player, Winamp3, and Media Player Classic as 360x240.

Winproducer and Vegas Video 3.0LE show them as 720x480.

I'm leaning in one of two directions:

1. The ADVC1394 fakes 720x480 in some sort of DV way that the included software understands, but others do not.

2. My windows DV TypeII Codec is non-standard and doesn't decode the perfectly good files from the ADVC1394.

Anybody know which, know a fix, or have another option to condider?

Thanks-
Pat

[rcb]

Try capping with VirtualVcr ; set the app to capture at 720 x 480, type II DV....

check captured file with Gspot or AviCodec -Either will tell you what real size you got.

[psantucc]

I haven't had a chance to check virtualvcr. I'm persuring the idea that the problem is in the playback via the microsoft DV decoder, since Gspot and AVICodec think my caps are 720x480., but Winamp3 and Media Player Classic still think it's 360x240.

I don't know how to prove what size TMPEG thinks it's source files are, but the wizard wants to encode my files as 352x240, which is at least a hint that TMPEG thinks they are not 720x480 - and what TMPEG thinks is what really counts, in the long run.

So WTF? How is it possible for there to be so many differing opinions as to the content of an AVI File?

Pat