Samples

[Jeff D]

obiwan71, do you not see banding in your captures? I just looked at the 6th sense clip and I could see it.

I ask because I've been trying to transfer my LDs over to DVD and the caps have a lot of banding, looking like 16bit color depth vs 24 bit color of HuffYUV.

I'll check some of your other clips. The screenshots seem to have the same dither/banding. Maybe I'm being too picky, but this doesn't look good on a large display.

These were 24bit captures? Maybe I need to go to a 32bit capture (oh that would be nuts)

[obiwan71]

I didn't know what the term "banding" meant. I've just looked for some information on the web.
To tell you the truth, I had not noticed anything wrong in my clips. Maybe it's just because I have an ATI video card.

[obiwan71]

Here are some new screenshots. No filters or deinterlacing have been applied and contrast/brightness/saturation settings have been set to default values.

Mel Gibson in What Women Want: http://sbouf.free.fr/gibson.jpg (MJPEG bitrate: 2000 Kb/s)

Screenshots from anamorphic video:
Ben Affleck: http://sbouf.free.fr/affleck_16-9.jpg (2000 Kb/s)
French actor Gérard Depardieu in Vidocq: http://sbouf.free.fr/depardieu_16-9.jpg (3000 Kb/s)
French actor André Dussollier in Vidocq: http://sbouf.free.fr/dussollier_16-9.jpg (3000 Kb/s)
Note: Vidocq was the first film to be shot with a high-definition digital camera.

And this is a MJPEG video with combing artifacts:
http://sbouf.free.fr/24_mjpeg_interlaced.avi

[Dali Lama]

Originally posted by obiwan71

Don't forget the "FlipVertical" command: the picture would be upside down otherwise (this is another bug... :().


I just wanted to bring attention to anyone who uses this card:

I found out at this link DC10+ Review (http://www.puremotion.com/videoediting/reviews/hardware/pinnacledc10plus/)

That if you install Dirext X 8, the DC10+ will not flip the image. Give it a try. I don't know, I don't have the card :)

Good Luck,

Dali

[neo_sapien]

Fellowship of the Ring full screen was playing on Starz, so I capped 20 minutes for some screenshots (20 screenshots). Bear in mind that DirecTV, the American digital satellite service which I subscribe to, has a very low bandwidth on most channels because they have a fixed bandwidth of around 640Mbps to distribute across hundreds of channels. Well, I think that's right (16 transponders, each 40mbps, right?). So the MPEG-2 that I'm watching on TV is probably about 2mbps.

Anyway, here are the screenshots. Color adjustments are using my THX color calibration settings (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48030).

http://home.covad.net/~wlabiche/CAPTEST/FOTR_FS/

[obiwan71]

That if you install Dirext X 8, the DC10+ will not flip the image
I have DirectX 8.0 installed.
But remember that it is only when you use AviSynth that the image is flipped. There is no problem otherwise.

[obiwan71]

I had posted nice screenshots (digital source). Here is a screenshot from a terrestrial source, just to give you an idea of the difference in quality.

(same card used - DC10+)

http://sbouf.free.fr/screenshot_terrestrial_source.jpg

[vhelp]

hi all :)

@ obiwan71,

When this thread first opened up, I was following it, till I lost it
and long forgotten it. Thanks for bringing it back. Even some of
the older clips and pegs are still active :) Thanks to dar1us and
others for this.

Yea, I REMEMBER THAT clip (one in your latest sample) And, it looks
great to me. What was the name of the Show and When was it aired ??

I've had my DC10+ card for many years now. Had problems in the beg
ining and later, fixed it and have ben happy w/it since. One thing
that I am displeased w/ is that it's limited to 640 x 480. I once
heard that you can jimmy it to cap at 720 x 480 but I've never seen
this actaully happen. (if anyone does, please enlight)

Yea, in my DC10+ I capture w/ 6000 bitrate because my system could
handle it. I think that maybe you should give it a try in yours.
I think I remember using my SIMA SED-CM for add color richness but
that was long ago, of which I don't remember too well these days. I'm
overwhelmed by many other projects. Anyways..

I've now since added others cards, Osprey-210 and latest, ADVC-100
to my list.. course, old news to some.

Hope to see others post clips here,
-vhelp

[obiwan71]

Yea, I REMEMBER THAT clip (one in your latest sample) And, it looks
great to me. What was the name of the Show and When was it aired ??
OK but... what clip are you talking about? :D

One thing
that I am displeased w/ is that it's limited to 640 x 480
Actually, I can't capture at 640x480. I've just tried to change the source format in FreeVCR: it seems that your limitation is due to the type of your source (NTSC?). My sources are PAL or SECAM, which enables me to capture at 768x576.

[vhelp]

OK but... what clip are you talking about? :D

Sorry, I thought it was from you :p The filename is below.

* Extrait_24_divx503_768x576_2000kbps.avi

Actually, I can't capture at 640x480. I've just tried to change the source format in FreeVCR: it seems that your limitation is due to the type of your source (NTSC?). My sources are PAL or SECAM, which enables me to capture at 768x576.

Ok, thanks anyways.. I thought it was possible for my NTSC card.

I was hoping to post a clip of a capture I did last night of some
movies that were on, but my computer w/ clips bombed out on me. I'll
see if I have those .avi's still laying around. I might have some stuff
that I did some time early this year w/ my ATI-TV Wonder card
if anyone is interested.

-vhelp

[dar1us]

Sorry to bring back up OLD news, but I was quite impressed, that site is still getting hits: http://www.aa981752.force9.co.uk - it gets like 36 a week, and has 2,500. It was really just setup to mirror the samples, but wow.

Openly chuffed,


harrison