andyf
02-06-2003, 20:09
I dunno if anyone remembers me posting about this a while ago, but I was having problems with video capture from TV/video to my PC. I was pretty much putting the blame on the nvidia graphics card and the cheap-ass video capture chipset they put on it.
Weeellll.... turns out it was a little more involved :) There were driver problems that were hampering full-screen viewing (horrible glitching when too wide), the tv-output was a bit screwy, and video capture was .. crap.
Anyway after flushing all trace of the drivers and reinstalling a fairly recent set, I found I had no more problems with tv-out or running videos full screen. Never bothered doing any video capture as I had nothing to capture.
There was a program on MTV during the day about Pro Gamer's (in America) which I videoed. A gaming friend in Switzerland persuaded me to capture it and upload it to him so he could see (it was a fairly good program, captured the subject matter well). I went to capture and although the picture quality was much better than last time I tried, it still wouldn't run in the resolution I wanted and thus looked crap. It was stuck in NTSC resolution recording a PAL broadcast, so it was missing quite a few lines off the bottom of the screen. Not a major problem but annoying. Started uploading the files and thought nothing more of it.
Then I got an email saying a thread I posted earlier had been replied to. Turns out I had originally posted for the driver location of the video capture stuff as Windows wasn't detecting a capture device (I must have killed it during the Driver flush and not reinstalled that part). So anyway someone replies and also puts a nice link up for capturing hi quality video with a geforce card. The url is http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/160618.php in case you are interested. I got the Virtual VCR program and ...
everything
was
fixed
turns out either Virtualdub wouldn't let me switch the card to a PAL mode (so I could run 720x576 and not 720x480 mode), or I simply couldn't find the toggle anywhere in the program. I did a test capture of BBC News 24 (guh) and also used a nice deinterlace filter provided by the guy who wrote Virtual VCR. The result? Perfect Full-PAL resolution video capture! Absolutely amazing. I'm pretty much gonna go get all my tuned car videos and start an overnight program of video capture + conversion as the results are simply fantastic :D I'm very happy :D:D
Weeellll.... turns out it was a little more involved :) There were driver problems that were hampering full-screen viewing (horrible glitching when too wide), the tv-output was a bit screwy, and video capture was .. crap.
Anyway after flushing all trace of the drivers and reinstalling a fairly recent set, I found I had no more problems with tv-out or running videos full screen. Never bothered doing any video capture as I had nothing to capture.
There was a program on MTV during the day about Pro Gamer's (in America) which I videoed. A gaming friend in Switzerland persuaded me to capture it and upload it to him so he could see (it was a fairly good program, captured the subject matter well). I went to capture and although the picture quality was much better than last time I tried, it still wouldn't run in the resolution I wanted and thus looked crap. It was stuck in NTSC resolution recording a PAL broadcast, so it was missing quite a few lines off the bottom of the screen. Not a major problem but annoying. Started uploading the files and thought nothing more of it.
Then I got an email saying a thread I posted earlier had been replied to. Turns out I had originally posted for the driver location of the video capture stuff as Windows wasn't detecting a capture device (I must have killed it during the Driver flush and not reinstalled that part). So anyway someone replies and also puts a nice link up for capturing hi quality video with a geforce card. The url is http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/160618.php in case you are interested. I got the Virtual VCR program and ...
everything
was
fixed
turns out either Virtualdub wouldn't let me switch the card to a PAL mode (so I could run 720x576 and not 720x480 mode), or I simply couldn't find the toggle anywhere in the program. I did a test capture of BBC News 24 (guh) and also used a nice deinterlace filter provided by the guy who wrote Virtual VCR. The result? Perfect Full-PAL resolution video capture! Absolutely amazing. I'm pretty much gonna go get all my tuned car videos and start an overnight program of video capture + conversion as the results are simply fantastic :D I'm very happy :D:D