GeForce4 VIVO capturing...

[DLogic]

I'm still somewhat of a newbie at this but I've been trying to capture video from my VCR and I'm not getting the exact duplicate out on my PC or an authored DVD. I grabbed a musical segment from Letterman the other night using MGI VideoWave 5 that came with the card. Although the audio sounds fine, the video looks as if I captured from a movie, not a live broadcast (if that makes any sense... same type of picture you would get watching the news per se). I've used VirtualDub and got the same results. I'm not losing any frames according to VirtualDub, nor have any other unnecessary processes running during capture. My computer setup is posted in my profile. Both times capturing was set at 29.97f/s for NTSC.

What's going on here? Is it just the card and the only quality im going to get out of it and should I just invest my time using a stand-alone DVD recorder to retain quality then reauthor on my PC?

[GKar]

What resolution do you capture at?

[marvel2020]

I used to capture the excact same way as yourself, but i found that you would always get some noise and sometimes bad picture quality when capturing through a VCR.

I would suggest that if your capturing from Digital Source eg... you Cable/Sat decoder, then just run a Scart lead(IF THEY HAVE A SPARE SCART SOCKET) from them to your ViVo composite video in, i do it this way all the time now and the always get perfect results.

But i suspect that you still have analogue source, hence the VCR source, so all you can hope for is what your getting now.

[GKar]

I gave up on AVI captures and went straight to MPEG2 with a Dazzle DVC II, it was quicker, good quality, and went from capture>author>burn in 2.5 hours on a 2 hour movie. Worked nice on most VHS caps too not just Dish Network caps.

[DLogic]

What resolution do you capture at?

720x480

I used to capture the excact same way as yourself, but i found that you would always get some noise and sometimes bad picture quality when capturing through a VCR.

I can understand that, however I'm not even getting the same quality that's being shown on my preview window. I'm not using any compression just straight to AVI on my empty 80GB hard drive. I'm just wondering what I'm doing wrong here or what I'm overlooking. I just want to be able to reproduce what I already have and not get any deterioration in the process.

[marvel2020]

DLogic wrote...

I'm not using any compression just straight to AVI on my empty 80GB hard drive.

Have you tried using compression. something like PIC Video MJPEG or HuffyUV, you should be using either 1 of them when you are capturing.

[DLogic]

Have you tried using compression. something like PIC Video MJPEG or HuffyUV, you should be using either 1 of them when you are capturing.

I tried PIC Video but I got crap out of that one. Really pixelated. I don't think I had it set up right. I'm going to try HuffyUV in the morning.

[GKar]

Have you tried using compression. something like PIC Video MJPEG or HuffyUV, you should be using either 1 of them when you are capturing.

I tried PIC Video but I got crap out of that one. Really pixelated. I don't think I had it set up right. I'm going to try HuffyUV in the morning.

You should stick to the old huffyuv 2.1.1, thats what I used and it seemed to work better than the newer ones. Are you using s-video, composite or just standard rca connections or god forbid coax for your captures? composite, s-video, rca, coax from best to worst.