RE: Video ripping question?

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

OK Ian ... you seem to know your stuff on this and we've touched on this
before.

Some people seem to love the ATI All-In-Wonder 128 card and some reckon it
sucks ... as before I'm still trying to spec out a machine to work
primarily
as an image processing machine (for digital stills) and for use as a hard
disc recorder.

Hard disc space won't be an issue but image quality is ... I'm looking at
wanting to use full frame (which when I used to program video graphics
meant
768x574 resolution for PAL) and without dropping frames ... I'm also
looking
for DVD (or better) quality. This would be used with a CRT projector on a
7ft wide screen and I can promise you that even S-VHS is unwatchably bad
when blown up that big!

Is the ATI up to that? I've been told to try the Matrox G450 TV card but
haven't been to look yet.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 February 2001 22:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Video ripping question?
>
>
> Hardware:
>
> ATI All-in Wonder 128 Pro. The same capture chipset as the
> Radeon, half the
> price.
>
> MPEG capture cards blow. you don't >want< MPEG-2 You only need
to
> use it if
> you are going to VCD. as you aren't, you would be better with:
>
> Codecs:
> depends: if you are happy with .asx as a file format, download the
windows
> media encoder tools, and use the MPEG4v3 Codec. If you would prefer
.avi
> (which I recommend) then you should use the DivX ;-) be careful not to
use
> Angelpotion, as it is rather broken.
>
> To do the actual capture use VirtualDub, and use the internal
> capture engine
> rather than the AVI compatibility mode.
>
> I use settings of:
>
> 400x300, 25fps compressing straight to DivX using the fast motion
> codec with
> a keyframe every second, and a max bps setting of 2100. This captures
an
> episode of "The Simpsons" at a quality far in excess of my
VCR.
>
> I don't compress the audio during capture, but capture stereo CD
quality
> (172kbps) then compress it down to a DivX 8kbps (about as good as
128kbps
> MP3 for normal dialog)
>
> After full compression, I can fit a simpsons episode at VHS quality
into
> about 70Mb of diskspace (that's 22 minutes btw)
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