Capturing Mpeg Real Time

[Fozzee]

Hi
I've seen a lot of comments from people capturing mpeg in real time.
For example " when I capture mpeg1 the quality isn't very good".

I think people are missing the point here. To achieve good results capturing Mpeg u have to use high settings.

My preferred ones are ;
Mpeg2, Resolution 720x576 and Bitrate 7500. If u do this you will get great results and then have a good source to re-encode afterwards.

If u want to create VCD or SVCD from your captures simply re-encode using the TMPGEnc templates. You will find your results improve significantly from just trying to capture mpeg1 or low bitrate mpeg2 levels.

Hope this helps.

Fozzee

[tkdaim]

Hi Fozzee,

What if you had 20 hours of footage that you want to make into VCD or DVD in one pass or real time so that you don't have to re-encode and spend weeks doing it? What would you suggest? Buying a $1000+ real time capture card?

T

[Fozzee]

Hi
It depends in what size chunks this footage was.
I think 20 hours footage wouldn't take any more than a week to capture then re-encode.
Therefore why buy a new card?

If you have the money go for it!!

I don't therefore i won't i'll have to stick with what i have.

My Advice was aimed at those who can only afford low cost but nevertheless very usable capture cards.

Fozzee

[tkdaim]

Hey Fozzee,

The advice was good. I was just curious on your thoughts about capturing mass amount of video. Hope my last message wasn't too rude...didn't mean it to be.

I see that you capture with AverTv Studio. Does the capture card not yield good results if you capture footage as MPEG 1 and just burn to disk with that file without having to re-encode? It seems like most consumer capture cards that boast that their card can capture footage as MPEG1 or 2 and then burn directly to disk yield terrible results. I wonder if there's a decent low cost (below $1000) MPEG 1 or 2 capture card out there that can do it real time, allowing the user to just capture and burn without having to re-encode? I guess it depends on how strong your CPU is too.

Even better, how about a low cost DV MPEG 1 or 2 real time capture card via hardware? I've gotten some good replys from this forum about that in my past posts on the same issue. An issue of "Speed vs' Quality" as someone posted before.

T