Capturing MPEG-2 with VC500, Cyberlink?
I went back and was reading your post in THIS THREAD where you stated that the VC500 doesn't support MPEG-2. I have used CyberLink PowerDirector 17 to capture directly to MPEG-2 @ ~8,000kpbs using the VC500 and it worked just fine. Comparing side by side to my lossless capture using VDub, it barely looks any different. Could you explain what you meant by that comment? I think maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say.
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CyberLink is low-quality software-based compression. The card is not capturing MPEG. It's capturing uncompressed, and passing that back to Cyberlink. If you think quality is the same,
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Ahhh ok I see what you mean. I seen a lot of posts where you and other members were suggesting that it's much more beneficial to capture to lossless first, and then encode to MPEG-2, vs capturing directly to MPEG-2. But most of those posts were from over 10 years ago when PC hardware wasn't quite what it is today. So did you make that suggestion based on the hardware available at the time, or are there other reasons? I know you said that your PC has similar specs to mine, so do you or would you ever capture directly to MPEG-2 with your rig?
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It's still true, and there are more reasons why. The main ones are:
- dropped frames issues - 1-pass VBR or CBR, much lower quality The ATI AIW is hybrid hardware/software encoding, and I only use that for non-DVD MPEG capturing. For DVD-spec capturing, certain DVD recorders, mostly LSI-based for tapes, or Zoran-based for off-air. There are MPEG cards, but those are legacy as well, and ATI AIW is still better. |
Perhaps maybe you guys should update the Introduction to Digital Video Capturing, Recording TV guide as the "MPEG or AVI" section states...
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