settings to capture dvix movies

[chipman]

 
i have dvix 5 installed i have been trying to capture some of my vhs tapes but if i capture more than about 85mins and try and play back its wont play gives an error message what is the best settings for capturing.
Thanks

[celtic_druid]

I would not use DivX to capture... Try using huffyuv, although you will get much greater file sizes.

Also you never said what program you were using. Also how big is the 85min file? You might want to try a segmented capture.

[chipman]

i think the capture was about 3gb and i tryed capturing with my ati 7.0 software and with baotv and i used huffyuv before but i didnt like it you cant tell what the pictures like until u convert to mpeg it looked blocky and what is wong with capturing divx i download divx movies all the time and convert to mpeg2 and they work 100%

[celtic_druid]

You can preview/watch huffyuv without converting to mpeg. DivX is a lossly compression that is what's wrong with it, for best quality it is best to stick with lossless compression or none untill you are ready to output your final file.

Best thing to do would be to capture using huffyuv and then frameserve with AVISynth using denoising, deinterlacing, etc. filters as needed.

There should be a YV12 capable version of huffyuv soon, although I guess that woudn't help if you are converting to mpeg as I don't know of any mpeg encoders that accept YV12 inputs, despite the fact that is what they output.

[chipman]

ok thank you l'll try huffyuv again

[theslayer]

huffyuv is more for caping than play back you could try the picvideo mjpeg codec for capturing

if your not using windows 2000 or xp it might be better for you to run one of these os'es so you could format a drive with the ntfs file system to capture you video to