RE: Video ripping question?

["Paul Miller" <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

Excellent info Ian, couple of questions.

you say you are using CUY2 as the format, are you setting that in the TV
app
that comes with ATI card (MMC V6?) or are you setting that in virtual dub?
the reason I ask is that format doesn't appear in my MMC app, and if I try
to select it in virtual dub it says the format is not supported.

So far the only way I can get decent quality is using ATI-VCR2 which I can
then recompress to DivX fast motion and MP3 audio for the small files that
I
would like.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 March 2001 14:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Video ripping question?


Mark, I have had  a similar story with capture cards: basically I started
with an AMD K6-2 350MHz. I now run an Intel PIII Cu-Mine (133FSB) at 800Mb
with 192Mb of CAS-2 PC-133 SDRAM Memory, and an ATA-66 Quantum IDE Drive. I
use an ATI AIW Pro 128 32Mb AGP Video Card, and this config is capable of
recording video without dropping frames (well, that's not true. I drop a
frame every 20,000 frames captured. (one every thirteen minutes))

I record straight to DivX with a video resolution of 300x400, using high
motion codec, with a keyframe every second, and a max bitrate of 2100. I
don't compress the audio in real time (a common mistake)  because, even at
800MHz, the proc is not fast enough. A friend's Athlon 1Ghz is >just<
fast
enough for this. I capture audio at 172Kbps CD Quality.

In addition, I don't use the ATI VCR-2 codec as the format, I use the ATI
capture device, but use CUY2 as the format. Basically, VCR-2 uses 12-bit
colour, which seems to cause "splotchiness" in the captured
video.

I would say that really any card prior to about Q2 99 should be regarded as
a doorstop by now, but that could be plain snobbery.  I have a Hauppage
WinTV in my desktop PC (the ATI machine is dedicated as a tivo/ddar
solution) and it can't perform anywhere near as well as the ATI AIW....

Ian.




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