Capturing PAL

[Tekaz]

What is your preferred resolution and compression when capturing PAL signal from an analogue source? What is effective?

Have you had any problems with s-video?

I used s-video adapter to connect my VCR to computer. The picture is acceptable but there is somekind of moire and defects in the picture. Have I got a bad cable or is there something else I haven't thought of?

Thanks for this great forum!

[bb]

My preferred PAL capture resolution is 768x576. I use PicVideo's MJPEG codec.

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[ronnylov]

I prefer the 704x576 resolution. I have an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon. But it depends on your capture card too, what available resolutions you have. There is nice information in the new capture guide (Doom9 - Guides - TV - capture - 1. Preface basics - section 1.3). Read the guide and check what type of capture card you have.

I use S-VIDEO in directly from my JVC SVHS VCR that has S-VIDEO out. No problems with that.

[SatStorm]

I capture @ 352 x 576. Very rare, and if I capture LD, I use 704 x 576

[Inc]

I capture using a Pinnacle DC30 and the new WDM Driver. sVHS VCR as tuner device which gives fantastic results.

- Resolution: 768x576 (resized 704x576 not supported)
- Videocodec: Onboard Hardware MJPG Engine Codec @ 3,5 MB/Sec
- Audio: Uncompressed PCM via Epox 8rda+ Onboard Soundinput

And my setup:
TV Signal connectet to a sVHS VCR - via s-video cable to the DC30

The WDM Driver for XP/2000 doesn't support direct audio on the DC30 but even it would work I still would use the Mainboard-sound-input cause of the bad quality of DC30's onboard sound digitizer (esp. right channel distortion on all DC30's as reviewed by many users) and of course of the mainboard 48khz sampling capabilities when encoding to DVD afterwards ;-)