PowerVCR II video stutter

[Patrick890]

PowerVCR II seems like a great program. except when I capture the video freezes and catches up every few seconds. The sound is great. It doesn't matter weather I capture mpeg-1 or mpeg-2 high or low quality. Anyone else have this happen? Vurtualdub works great just doesn't have realtime mpeg capture.

Thanks

[keithsebastian]

try reducing the capture resolution. make a copy of whatever profile u're using and just change to a lower res.
to make a copy, u have to first select the profile and click on 'new'

u can also try to optimize the profile for speed (0 or 1) instead of quality (3) by using the same method as above.

try the latter first.

[keithsebastian]

Persistence pays - I think I found the answer. I tried Donald Graft's smart deinterlacer for vdub. This one does deinterlacing
based on motion detection i.e. only when interlace artifacts
are present, and not all the time. Hence both fields are preserved
when deinterlacing is not required like in low motion scenes.

Groyal - U should give this a try. It's better than throwing away
one field.

Epi - Thanks for the template. One more question - Will disabling
'detect scene change' give better results for high motion videos?
As vcd bitrate is low i have a feeling that extra I frames that
result from enabling this setting will only degrade overall quality.

[keithsebastian]

SORRY ! THAT WAS A MISTAKE.