ATI AIW Radeon capture problem

[jake 0.0]

I am trying to record some VHS source to save to SVCD or even DVD if
im lucky. The problem is no matter what resolution or bit rate I
select in ATI TV record when I export it it comes out MPEG1 672x448
@ 12000kbps Audio is 44.1khz @ 224kbps. It looks very nice but its
unusable to convert to anything else. If anyone has any ideas I would
appreaciate it.


Video Card - ATI AIW Radeon "original 7200"
Audio - SoundMax built into Intel PIV motherboard
CPU - PIV 2.26ghz
RAM - 1 Gig
HD - 80 + 40 Gig HD
DVD-R & DVD-Rom drives

Software I have installed
XP Pro SP1 and updates
Latest Catalyst drivers
except MMC Im stuck with 7.71

 

[ClawJammer]

except MMC Im stuck with 7.71

It's been several months since I upgraded from a 7200 to my 8500DV, but
it seems to me that I had it working fine with Cat 3.5 and MMC 8.1.
I'm not sure, but MMC may require DX9, and don't forget to install the
DAO drivers with MMC 8.1.

Try 8.1, because you can record interlaced rather than using de-
interlace, which causes really jerky motion. I'd turn off the pulldown
too, if you plan on editing the final product, because it makes it just
about uneditable.

My SVCD (KVCD) profile is as follows:

CPU slider at 100%
Record cropped video (make full use of those precious few bits)
MMC only records cropped video when the record profile and display panel
cropped video options are check-marked.

Pulldown off.

No video soap.

Constant Bitrate (MMC VBR stinks for low bitrates, but looks fine for
DVD bitrates).

I don't know if it's just me, but I think visual masking has an adverse
affect on captures, so find the following key and make the value for
visual masking "0":

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\Multimedia\Features\TV\Video
Capture\MPEG

I modify the default SVCD profile with the above parameters and change
the resolution to 352x480. It makes for a much better looking capture!
It's not SVCD compliant, but it is "KVCD.net" compliant, and will play
just fine in your DVD player.

I use VCDEasy, which when loading the mpeg2 file, will notify you that
it is not "SVCD compliant, but IS KVCD.net compliant, and do you want to
continue...?" If you like VCDEasy, there is also an option to turn off
the KVCD compliancy warning.

Good Luck,

CF

 

[Andy]

Why don't you record directly to DVD format (MPEG-2, 720 x 480,
8Mbit/sec, 48KHz, 16-bit Stereo)?

 

[jake 0.0]

Why don't you record directly to DVD format (MPEG-2, 720 x 480,
8Mbit/sec, 48KHz, 16-bit Stereo)?

It doesnt seem to let me do that. No matter what resolution or type of
output its that 672x448 for some reason.

 

[Daniel Tonks]

I am trying to record some VHS source to save to SVCD or even DVD if
im lucky. The problem is no matter what resolution or bit rate I
select in ATI TV record when I export it it comes out MPEG1 672x448
@ 12000kbps Audio is 44.1khz @ 224kbps. It looks very nice but its
unusable to convert to anything else. If anyone has any ideas I would
appreaciate it.

Hmmm, it's a long shot but have you tried disabling the "Crop Video"
setting?

- Daniel

 

[ClawJammer]

Hmmm, it's a long shot but have you tried disabling the "Crop Video"
setting?

Did 7.7 have a cropped video feature?

By chance did you happen to use Stinky's MMC tool?
That could've whacked things in your profile if you weren't careful.

 

[Daniel Tonks]

Did 7.7 have a cropped video feature?

Can't recall, but I seem to remember have that annoying setting for quite a
while now.

- Daniel

 

[JAD]

Did 7.7 have a cropped video feature

YES