Need advice on which capture/vga card for system

[Guest]

I know that I can do it.
But if I want quality that is exactly what I DON'T want to do.

If I must re encode to a format in low quality as DviX I want at least good quality for my original material.
If I have to capture using standard Mpg2 then I will use 15Mbit CBR and convert it aftter words.
If I can I will prefer capturing to DV or Mpg2 I-Frame or even Uncompressd YUV 4:2:2.
Then I know that my original material is free of noise - both signal as well as "Pixle dust" and that the DviX encoder can do a good job.

The reason Ripping DVDs give so nice quality is because the original material on a DVD is in good quality.
The Signal is "Perfect" since it come from a digital transfer and the picture is normaly clean from noise since the big studios are using Snell & Wilcox noise reduction systems.
With material at this grade you can get good quality in DviX.

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[labdog]

if you capture DVDs in original format & convert to DivX directly, im agreed with you because you bypass the mpeg2 compression.

but you must have a very high capacity hd to capture the movie (still more if it's a 2h30 or 3h movie, this is not unusual for DVDs) & to convert its format to DivX.


if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy.

 

[Guest]

I do have a nice drive, but using a normal one, capturing to DV and working your way from there will give you much better quality then working with Mpg2 capturing with a low level card such as the Radeon AIW or a TV card with capturing options.

Also editing in DV is more simple, Fast, high quality and the rest.

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[labdog]

<blockquote><font size=1>En réponse à:</font><hr><p>working with Mpg2 capturing with a low level card such as the Radeon AIW or a TV card with capturing options<p><hr></blockquote><p>lol

you mix for capture a "simple" TV card & an AIW Radeon.
you think they are some craps the one as the other.
i think you have to teach a little yourself about.

you have on the THG a complete article about the AIW at <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000821/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000821/index.html</A>

& anothers on Mpeg2, Mpeg4 & DivX at
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/index.html</A>
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q2/010424/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q2/010424/index.html</A>
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q4/011022/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q4/011022/index.html</A>
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q4/011207/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/video/01q4/011207/index.html</A>

have a look on.



if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy.

 

[Guest]

I was not impressd
I am sure you can do much much better.

Maybe you will like to try <A HREF="http://www.snellwilcox.com/internet/index.html" target="_new">This</A> site.....

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[labdog]

yeah!, go ahead & buy a $10.000 system to replace this "crap" of gc card. rol


if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy.

 

[Guest]

The point is that there is a long way with lot's of options in betwin using a low quality card into using a compression mathod that reduce the video quality, and then ReCompress it even more to a 10K system.

BTW, if you find a Mpg2 PreFilter from Snell and Wilcox for only $10K Please contact me as I will probably be in the market.

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