On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:28, Donna. wrote: > > Just in case everybody ever hoping to digitize from videotape has been scared > off, it IS possible. Off newer VCRs, fairly new recordings (within the last > two years), I get almost as good quality as I do capturing from composite > off the antenna. > yup. my vcr is about 5-7 years old....although, still in good shape. > A couple weeks ago, I captured two tapes, circa 1995-97, recorded on one of the > scuzziest VCRs it's ever been my displeasure to own. One of the movies had a > tracking problem on playback, didn't feel like opening the playback machine > to tweak hardware for just one movie, so left in the line down at the bottom of > the picture. Both of them were mono, of course, since the original VCR was, > and the video was a little washed out, but otherwise they came through just > fine. No lost frames, no more sound leakage than I get on a good recording. > > A couple months ago I did some tapes from about 1990-92, with the same capture > results, only the video was better cuz they'd been done in a better VCR. > > I'm doing this with a Pinnacle DC10+ (hardware compression) ah...probabely a better capture card then mine. > with lavrec from > the mjpegtools v1.4.1. The relevant settings to lavrec are -d2 (decimation just downloaded these tools ...after some minor dep problems (xforms, jpeg-mmx, libmovtar)..got em installed. be my first time with them. > 2, which produces frames 240x288, which give me better quality fullscreen playback > than capturing at larger framesize) and -q100 (quality 100%). > > Just in case that's useful to anybody ...... > > > Donna. > pudge@xxxxxxxxxx
