CCE & AVIsynth

[LSchafroth]

I beleive I have finally decided on my software of choice.

IuVCR for capturing since VD is not an option with XP.
PicVideo compression
AVIsyhtn/VirtualDubMOD for filtering and cutting and so forth.
CCE for encoding.

I've read about AVIsynth being faster with YV12 color and some about a mpeg2dec file to help? What is the story with YV12 or YUY2?

I am currently capturing in YUY2. Should I change that to YV12? What is the mpeg2dec3 file for AVIsynth do? I want to make sure I have the fastest and most effecient setup before I dive in and do 21 tapes!

Thanks,

LS

[Ejoc]

The mpeg2dec3 if for reading dvd2avi .d2v files when you are opening VOB files w/ avisynth, since you are dealing w/ an AVI, you can ignore it.

I dont get your comment about not being able to capture w/ VD (I assume you mean VirtualDub) in XP. I do this all the time.

I found that AVISynth works faster then frameserving from VirtualDub, so I always use it.

I capture w/ YUY2, I remember reading that it gives some of the best results for picture quality.

[LSchafroth]

I dont get your comment about not being able to capture w/ VD (I assume you mean VirtualDub) in XP. I do this all the time.

XP uses WDM drivers and VD requires VFW. I have not found any drivers that will allow VD to work and allow the Tuner portion of the card to work.

LS

[pijetro]

XP uses WDM drivers and VD requires VFW

It'll work, does for me..

YV12 will get you speed, but i believe YUY2 gets you a tad bit better quality. But try to capture with either uncompressed YUY2(not an option for many), or Huffy in YUY2 colourspace...

Formula:
Uncompressed YUY2+352x480 capture+AVISynth+CCE+DVDLab, produce the fastest and best results..
I can encode 1.5x realtime on a crappy P111 1ghz..

I believe YUY2 is a better capture colourspace than YV12. Not sure of the speed difference though....

[sacajaweeda]

I bought Ivan's capture program myself and used it for a while, but I gave it up in favor of VirtualVCR. I don't know if he's changed anything about in the last year or so, but I kept having audio synch problems when I'd capture stuff with IUVCR, and the dynamic resampling option in VirtualVCR solved that problem so I quit using IUVCR. Really nice program though, save for the synch issue.