what codec is able to convert analog to digital?

[kurt476]

hi, what codec is able to convert analog to digital video, audio?

here is the features i am looking for:

*smooth any ruff spots out
*filters all ready in the codec
*ablity to not drop frames
*resize video
*deblocking YUV2
*converts to closest clearty

[Elic]

:) If "analog" means TV / VHS / SVHS, then you need "capture device", not "codec". And features you looking for are not codec-specific, there are lots of filters doing that...

[kurt476]

ok thank you for your input

[Mug Funky]

hmm. i might add that analog video should not need deblocking... even if it's an ex lossy digital source (news footage, sports broadcasts), deblocking will only be effective vertically as analog video will be blurred horizontally.

>> ability to not drop frames

hehe... well that all depends on how fast your machine can filter and how fast (and consistently) your hard disk can write.

if you can manage it, try set up a SATA RAID with 3 or more drives. beware that SATA can (apparently) slow down as the drives get full though.

[chilledoutuk]

if you dont have a very fast computer there are some hardware based capture cards that have mpeg2 encoding hardware built into the board

[Sirber]

Like ATI (not? ;)) All In Wonder :)

[Elic]

Hmm... I use trivial TV tuner (Aver-305) and program Fly2000tv, and codec I prefer or HuffYUV or ArithYUV. My Celeron-2000 can capture near-full-res TV (640*576) at 50-70% load, with no on-the-fly filtering at all.