Re: Video Capture Question

Hi Bryan,


video capturing isn't as easy as it may seem, at least not on professional
(good) systems.  I actually studied video on the first place, and have
experience with quite some cards and systems.  To be able to make good
quality captures you need to know quite a bit about video... resolutions,
fields, field order, getting rid of fields for computer display, frames per
second, compression techniques,...

Each video card will capture video in high quality.  I have a DC30 and never
capture below 6MB per second, as I can see quality go down (768 x 576
resolution, PAL 25fps).  But for the net, that's a bit useless of course.  I
have 50GB of disk space, and am terribly in need of more.  6 minutes of
video takes up 2GB in this way, which also puts a high strain on harddrives.
I also have worked on uncompressed video systems, which take up 28MB/second.
Go figure...

I have some vids on my site, 4MB per minute is still okay quality, but not
'good'.  Check em out if you want: http://www.fiatcoupe.net

I advise you to read about it a lot and test things out.  For that, you need
MUCHA time.


- Kayjey -


----- Original Message -----
From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Video Capture Question


> I just got a Belkin VideoWave II video capture device a couple days ago,
but
> so far I have not been able to produce anything useful with it.  A four
> minute clip winds up being over 1 MB.
>
> Has anybody figured this thing out yet?  I tried changing the picture
size,
> but then for some reason it would not recognize the video or audio feed.
I
> could see the preview playing until I hit the record button, and then the
> screen went blank.
>
> Also, is there a user friendly program to convert avi to mpg that actually
> works under Windows-ME?  I did a Web search on the subject last night, but
> all of the suggestions I found simply did not work.
>
>

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