Capture with iuVCR, compress XviD, but resize?

[mustardman]

I am using iuVCR to record from an ADVC100 (firewire DV stream). Direct DV-type1 to disk is fine, but using XviD compression drops frames (not surprising really - I only have a 1.5GHz computer).

I don't need full frame size (PAL, 720x576) and can live just fine with a half size video (360x288). However, I can't get iuVCR to resize the incoming video before it sends it to XviD. I had a look through all the filters, but none of them seems to do a simple resize. XviD has no options for resize prior to compression - as far as I can see.

Is there a specific filter that can do this resize, indeed, can this even be done with iuVCR?

MustardMan

[fellaw]

iuVCR can do the resize. On the video tab, click video format. Then select the radio button named Custom and enter the width and height in the fields below.

[mustardman]

Thanks for the reply, but there is (was!) a problem...

I tried as you suggested, but no matter what I did, I could not get iuVCR to stay at anything other than 720x576. It would appear to change, but returning to the configuration dialog would always show the reverted values. Any recorded video was also full size. It may be because the ADVC100 is an external device, and its' size is fixed?

However, some success in another direction. The input was (of course) DV. The output codec I set to XviD (VFW). In the 'filters' setting I selected "ffdshow" (iuVCR gave an error) and then I configured it for "raw video input", which fixed the error. The resize in 'ffdshow' (a October 2002 version) works fine. The one in a later version (2003, I can't remember which build) completely screws up the image.

But it runs fairly well, I can do the half size compression in real time - which was my aim.

Thanks.