Software encoding vs. real-time MPEG-2 quality

[fmctm1sw]

I initially captured from vhs @ 720x480 when I first got my card but it always looks worse than capturing @ 352x480. I always figured this is because you are basically "blowing up" a low res source. Apparently you are saying I should still capture @ 720x480????

I would understand that if my source was 720x480...and for some good sources it might still look fine, but i have noticed that recording tv/vhs @ 352x480 has given me a product very veery close to the original whereas trying to capture at higher resolutions (and yes I increase the bitrate..up to 8000 even) introduces anomalies.

There is a long thread in this forum,

Had some good pictures too but I think they all got nuked after that server meltdown we had a while back...
Like said, most card capture at a specific resolution and resize or scale to what numbers you poked in. Mine ended up being 712x480 so I just chop off 4 pixels from each side and go with it. If I want to use 352x480, I just do a horizontalreduceby2() with avisynth.

[greymalkin]

thanks guys..sorry if I took the thread off it's original topic.

I am using an AIW 9000 but i'm thinking about going to a seperate vid and captures card.

thanks again.