Codec Confusion with ATI

[R1Cohen]

I've always recorded with YV12, so that it shows well and converts wonderfully.

Disk space is not a factor (1/2 a terrabyte).

Now that I'm finally fed up with MMC seldon working, I'm looking into other 3rd party recording software, am presently trying out iuVCR, which I happen to like.

Problem is getting that YV12 "compression". I've tried Huffy, MPEG-4 and others and they all leave something to be desired.

Can someone help me find a 3rd party recorder that will record in this mode?

Many thanks.

[The village idiot]

With half a terrabyte, you really want to compress it? Sorry, no help from me. I just started using iuvcr, the only thing that looks like it will work for me.

[mrtristan]

Do you really have 500 Gigabytes of hard drive space? How much did that cost you?

[R1Cohen]

Yeah, a Promise Card with 4 120 gig ATA 120 gig drives in RAID 0, NTFS.

Now they came out with a 6 channel card.

I don't NEED the compress, but recording RAW then converting to SVCD is blocky and generally stinks, but YV12 gives me a much better conversion.

Getting a Matrox G450 eTV today, so I'm hoping that:

1) get's rid of ATI
2) gets rid of A/V sync problems when capturing
3) makes this setup work the way I expected it to, without un-install/re-install headaches.

If you get a good conversion, please tell me how.

[leera2]

R1Cohen m8, I was recently thinking of a similar 4 drive raid setup with 80gig ibm's, Can you tell me what case your using as i would need to accomodate dvd,cdrw,fdd,4 hdd and what your using to keep it all cool.

thanks m8.

[R1Cohen]

http://www.caseoutlet.com/Server/CS-WS-FS-710/CS-WS-FS-710.html and look inside.

Been building 'puters for 20+ years and this might be one of the best cases I've ever seen.

Both 4 drive internal cages remove with a lever, and you can SNAP a fan in front of the drivers so that it blows from outside the case over the drives.

Black with a door in front.

Looks great next to the Mediacenter.

I've got 2 CD's in it and I still have 3 external bays left.

Take a look at athe new Promise card. TX/6 I think.