Chaintech G4 Ti4200

[dead_pyhto]

I've just wanted to capture some frames:) but what have I got :confused: - VirtualDub sees only one format (UYVY) and I have no idea how to compress it:( DivX on the fly and capturing uncompressed frames gives a plenty of dropped frames.
My computer is not too fast - PIII 800, but I'm sure there is the way to solve this problem. Some of you may know it, tell me please.
Btw, how can I just watch the video through video in? Is there any software, cause either at Chaintec's or at nVidia's sites I found only drivers?

[Divine]

The Nvidia wdm drivers can only capture in UYVY.
You could use avisynth to convert to yuy2 if really necessary.

Also, you should better capture at UYVY 720x480/576 using huffyuv 2.1.1 (http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/huffyuv.html) as compressor.
After that encode to divx using nandub/vdub /w optional filters.
Capturing to DIVX requires cpu horsepower, and your 800mhz cpu is too slow for that.

As for watching tv...
I use IUVCR, (www.iulab.com) but a program like Dscaler is also usable (http://www.dscaler.com/)

[dead_pyhto]

Thanks a lot, Divine.
I've downloaded the last version (2.1.1) of huffyuv and tried it:
for my sorrow I had almost 50% dropped frames, can't understand on what it depends. CPU usage not exceeded 40%, harddisk space recently defragmented (7200rps). Tried resolutions from 720x480 down to 352x258 - almost the same result, the same amount of dropped frames. I used VirtualDub 1.4.10, audio compression PCM 44,100 kHz; 16bit; stereo, video 25fps.
Also the result picture was interlaced. Is there any way to deinterlace it on the fly or it's my bug (the source is PAL)?

[Darksoul71]

1) Download Virtual VCR from www.digtv.ws
2) Set video format to PAL
3) Capture all resolutions up to 720x576 without dropped frames
4) Get lucky ;)

-D$

[dead_pyhto]

Thanks, Darksoul. Great prog! One of the few that I liked when first time tried it.
My problem also was that I tried to capture with colour depth 32 bit, I wonder why such a powerful card can't work in this mode!
Now I have no dropped frames but I have deinterlace problem. Can I do it on the fly (how?) or just use decomb or something like that when reencoding to DivX?

[Darksoul71]

Now I have no dropped frames but I have deinterlace problem. Can I do it on the fly (how?) or just use decomb or something like that when reencoding to DivX?
You can either capture directly to DivX at a higher res and use the built-in deinterlacer of Divx (low quality blend) or (better) capture interlaced to MJPEG and deinterlace afterwards using Decomb / SmartDeinterlacer / GreedyHMA etc.

This is slower but gives best quality. You can go to luke´s site to find out about deinterlacing and all this stuff.

-D$