RE: Video ripping question?

["Paul Miller" <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

Ian, not sure why you think Mpeg encoder cards blow as the mpeg2 encoders
are used to provide videowall output across high speed ATM networks and
offer as near as dammit broadcast quality.
At around ?2000 a card they are rather expensive :(


-----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)