Awesome quality capture, but way too big, what to change?

[MikeS]

I'm trying to capture directly to DivX (low motion) from TV but whatever settings I use it's always too big. I want it to be no bigger than 1 meg/min but the best I can do is 17megs/min. I'm using Vdub with a framerate of 29.97, audio 44k/16/s, DivX low motion codec, 320x240 YUY2. Here's a pic of vdub after 1 minute of recording.

www.geocities.com/divx_edu/tvcap1.jpg

Oh yea, I've also noticed if I try to capture at anything other than 19.98, 29.97, 59.94 I lose frames like crazy. So if I try to capture at 20 fps I lose frames but not at 59.94. Why is that?

Thanks,
Mike Shaffer

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[MikeS]

Copy and paste the url to a new browser window or it won't work.

[MikeS]

btt

[MikeS]

btt

[maggieh]

for starters you need to compress the audio which will cut the size of your file in half

i'm no expert but 1 meg a minute aint ever going to give you good quality with divx. i've downloaded some decent stuff at about 2mb/min but its still not great looking


as for the dropped frames at different frame rates being reported, i think that is some kind of compensation for audio/video sync, you may not actually be dropping those frames. search the forum there is a good explanation there somewhere.

[deltaboy]

buddy, you have a great pc setup with ample HD space. why not try capturing MJPEG then compresing to divx and mp3 after? try SBC for best results in small AVI file sizes...