ATI Radion 64 Quality

[donaldh]

I have the ATI Radion 64 and captering @ 1.15Mbs the quality is rubish.

Any one have a better way and staying VCD Complyant.(sp)

I have herd of Captering at a higher Mbs and higher screen res and converting with Tmpeg. Any help would be apreciated

Donald

[sommersby]

need more info, what is your source?

[cruffino69]

I have the same board and I do the same thing. I agree that the captures are rubbish, crap, garbage, etc.. Part of this is the fact that you're capturing MPEG in real time. The other part is that at VCD resolution and bit rate, it's just not going to be that good. Search around on these forums and you'll see that's a common sentiment.

However, if you want to maximize your quality and be VCD compliant, try capturing to AVI using a lossless codec like Huffyuv then convert offline with TMPGEnc. I did a test way back when I first got my board comparing several methods. Clearly, the best VCD compliant MPEG was what I mention here. The downside is that it takes a long time to perform the offline conversion.

Good luck!

[sommersby]

If you want the best you have have to capture to a loseless codec. And as for long processing time, depends on your cpu, if you ahve a pent 4 or amd xp series that goes almost down to real time.

[Macros746]

Capture to MJEG at a quality setting of 18. The main advantage to capturing to this as opposed to high end MPEG2 capturing which my AIW Radeon does rather well, is the ease of editing commercials and adding filters with virtualdub. Then, after five minutes of editing in VD, frameserve to TMPGenc with the VCD template and turn off your monitor and go to bed. Great captures.....few headaches.


Mark

[donaldh]

Thnk you for the help but if you could e-mail me (donald.healey@freemail.absa.co.za) step by step instructions would help.

The best Ive got at the moment is capturing from CamCorder in NCST @ 640 x 480 4.5Mbs Variable bit rate 99 motion then TMPEG.

Have a Athlone 1.1 ; 384Mb Ram ; 40Gb Hdd Radion 64Mb DDR.

Thank you