Horizontal Lines making video unbearable

[Fatalize]

Hi,

I am having the hardest time trying to solve this problem... I'm hoping someone on this site can help me out. I'm trying to capture video from my xbox 360 but every time I capture video, the video comes out with all these horizontal lines during fast motion. I've tried several capture cards (dazzle platinum.... etc, and the ADS Pyro A/V link - my most recent capture card)... I've tried many capture programs from Virtual Dub to Vegas 7.0. I'm pretty sure I capture in uncompressed DV (.avi). I cant seem to get rid or get around those horizontal lines mainly appear when fast motion occurs. I've tried to record with both the composite rca and component cables out of my xbox but i get the same results. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? I've seen many people record games with excellent results without horizontal lines or blurriness during fast motion. I hope to acheive these kind of results but I cant seem to get the right hardware/software? If you need any more info I'll be happy to provide it... I tried to be somewhat descriptive. Thanks very much for any help or advice.

[Soopafresh]

Are you sure that isn't interlacing artifacts?

[edDV]

The XBOX 360 exports 480i. That is the way it is. You see two fields at a time when viewing on the PC. If you play to a TV you won't see the lines since the fields are displayed sequentially.

Try a deinterlacing player on the PC like VLC. Under "Video" select "Deinterlace" and experiment with options (blend, bob, linear, mean and discard). Discard tosses a field leaving half vertical resolution and half motion increments.

[mk2006]

Your comment about the lines being most visible during fast motion, would indicate interlacing lines, however looking at your scrreen shot, the lines look to tight for standard 480 resolution. Are you capturing in HiDef?

As far as what to do about them:
1. If you capture in 480i and plan to burn to DVD, then you do nothing. The output will look fine on an analog TV
2. If you are capturing in HiDef and want to burn to SD DVD, then used deinterlace filter, then resize to 480
3. For PC viewing, deinterlace, then resize as needed.

[Fatalize]

Hi all,
I've tried using a deinterlacing player such as VLC but the results come out mediocre... The horizontal lines disappear but the picture becomes extra blurry. I capture SD via analog cables for purposes of viewing on a computer only... perhaps to share files with others by posting my videos on websites. I've watched and downloaded many user gameplay videos on mythica (video uploading site) that have produced excellent video quality results with no horizontal lines and no blurriness during motion. For example... here is the link to a very decent video clip.

http://useruploads.mythica.org/view/Montage_Final_Small.wmv.html

-you may want to download the video and skip to the 1:00 mark because everything before that is just an intro

Thank you all for you help!

[edDV]

Did you try "discard in VLC deinterlace settings? That will get you similar results to your link. Compare "Discard" to "Bob" to "Mean" with the same action clip.

You can deinterlace before wmv encoding or you can let Windows Media Encoder handle it by default. Compare.