ATI MMC and multi-segmented capture

[Larry B.]

My system is admittedly kind of slow: W98SE, ASUS CUSL-2 Mobo ATA 100/134,
80Gb 7200 Main HDD, 120Gb 7200 Dedicated Video HDD, 512Mb SDRAM,

I plan on capturing output from my PVR (in 50 minute pieces) and burn it to
an authored DVD.

I just picked up an ATI AIW 9000 Pro to replace my old ATI AIW 128 (Rage)
card (with MMC 7.2).

In order to avoid overloading the CPU by capturing in M2v, I plan on doing
it in multi-segment AVI (Win98se). Some programs can do this and seam them
back together upon completion of the capture.

Will MMC 8.x do this (well)?

I have also considered doing a pass-through on my DV camcorder to provide a
quality capture source but that would be in DV AVI instead of raw AVI.

Can MMC 8.x do this and will it create an overall benefit like avoiding the
need for multi-segmenting or reduced CPU demand (dropped frames)?

Didn't see much on multi-segmenting on lordsmurf's homeworld and nothing at
ati.com..

I appreiate your input.

 

[Bert]

My system is admittedly kind of slow: W98SE, ASUS CUSL-2 Mobo ATA 100/134,
80Gb 7200 Main HDD, 120Gb 7200 Dedicated Video HDD, 512Mb SDRAM,

I plan on capturing output from my PVR (in 50 minute pieces) and burn it to
an authored DVD.

I just picked up an ATI AIW 9000 Pro to replace my old ATI AIW 128 (Rage)
card (with MMC 7.2).

In order to avoid overloading the CPU by capturing in M2v, I plan on doing
it in multi-segment AVI (Win98se). Some programs can do this and seam them
back together upon completion of the capture.

Will MMC 8.x do this (well)?

I have also considered doing a pass-through on my DV camcorder to provide a
quality capture source but that would be in DV AVI instead of raw AVI.

Can MMC 8.x do this and will it create an overall benefit like avoiding the
need for multi-segmenting or reduced CPU demand (dropped frames)?

Didn't see much on multi-segmenting on lordsmurf's homeworld and nothing at
ati.com..

I appreiate your input.

With MMC you can specify the max filesize it can use; durinhg recording it will
automatically start a new file when the max filesize of the current one is
reached.
As far as I know, DVD players cannot handle filesized exceeding 2 GB and DVD
authoring SW take this into account.

 

[Larry B]

With MMC you can specify the max filesize it can use; durinhg recording it will
automatically start a new file when the max filesize of the current one is
reached.
As far as I know, DVD players cannot handle filesized exceeding 2 GB and DVD
authoring SW take this into account.

Hi Bert, thanks. After the multiple captures, would I then have to
manually put them all together again or is there some automatic
function for that?

 

[Bert]

Hi Bert, thanks. After the multiple captures, would I then have to
manually put them all together again or is there some automatic
function for that?

Like I mentioned, there is no point in putting them together, because of
this 2 GB filesize limit.
On the other hand, my cheap 44 Euro DVD player just plays those files
seamlessly after each other.
I don't have experience with DVD authoring using DVD quality files, but
with SVCD quality using Disc Wizzard from Power Director you can specify
the sepatate files and add menu's.
I Think the DVD verion of Disc Wizzard works in the same way.