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Thread ID: 39183 2003-10-29 11:33:00 48hrs of video footage to my PC NONSTOP sc0ut (2899) Press F1
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187698 2003-10-30 06:33:00 > Why what the heck is happening on saturday?
Oh shame PoWa - haven't you heard of Google? !! :p

> Are they showing 48hours of stargate non-stop!?? What channel??!
Sky TV is doing exactly that. :-) 		Susan B (19)
187699 2003-10-30 07:34:00 A good image should be around 320MB but you can get them down to 81MB with reasonable image. This is using the DivX format.

Not sure what program you would use though. I had thought of transferring my videos (about 48 tapes worth) to disk but have not yet tried it. My video card GainWard FX5900 Ultra has a video in port so just about any software should do it that can record video/audio.
Visual Studio would be one that is commercial. I am sure there would be free or shareware ones as well. 		Big John (551)
187700 2003-10-30 09:24:00 > Right......
>
> Lets clear something up here: why do you need to
> capture 48 hrs non stop??????
>
> please answer

Probably because he wants to? 		Baldy (26)
187701 2003-10-30 11:45:00 >Lets clear something up here: why do you need to capture 48 hrs non stop??????
some poor people have to work over the weekend :(

i cant use 8 hour tapes because my shifts are 10hrs long

i just want to be able to start recording and let it run over the weekend

yes my friend said there is a 2GB limit that you can bypass it with a download to make it a 4GB limit

i don't exactly want it in 1 big file
i just want a program to be able to compress it as it goes and save them in sectors
this way it will record 1hr & save- then record another hr & save . .
so by the end of it i will have
1.avi
2.avi
...
48.avi

it doesn't have to be in AVI format either 		sc0ut (2899)
187702 2003-10-30 12:12:00 DivX will get you the best results. What quality are you wanting? 400Mb DivX for 45mins (episode length) is watchable, but not best quality if you wanted to store it.

How about 800mb an hour, that equals to about 38400mb in 48hrs, so you should have enough hard drive space free.

So encode DivX at high definition profile, and at about 1660Kbit/s. That would be really awsome quality.

Are you going to cut the ads out? 		PoWa (203)
187703 2003-10-30 12:14:00 Check out dvdhelp.com

Has a tutorial on there about capture.

Might I suggest you try and do a few trial-runs beforehand? 		Chilling_Silently (228)
187704 2003-10-30 13:07:00 > DivX will get you the best results. What quality are
> you wanting? 400Mb DivX for 45mins (episode length)
> is watchable, but not best quality if you wanted to
> store it.

Humm 340MB files are near perfect. Same quality as Sky TV if done properly. 81MB size is watchable again if done properly.

If you have to use 800MB for 45 minute just to get watchable you aint doing it right. 		Big John (551)
187705 2003-10-30 13:19:00 Resizing the capture resolution is always a good one.. You dont need to capture it at 768x540 or whatever the PAL resolution is.

320x240 is bearable on most TV's... Go a lil higher if you wish, but that's the res that a lot of my music vids are at that I get from the P2P networks...

*Did I just say that?* 		Chilling_Silently (228)
187706 2003-11-01 23:00:00 Just noticed that the movie version sun 11 45am is being repeated from last night hope they dont do this for the series ? kiwibeat (304)
187707 2003-11-01 23:36:00 >Humm 340MB files are near perfect. Same quality as Sky TV if done properly. 81MB size is watchable again if done properly.

>If you have to use 800MB for 45 minute just to get watchable you aint doing it right.

I've got DivX ones about 400mb and they look a tad blurry but still very good. Maybe its just that I'm watching them on a computer. If I put them back to tv, they would look pretty good. If it were me, I would make an episode about the size of a cd, rather than having 2 episodes on the one cd at degraded quality. Bah, I'm buying the dvd collection one day :) 		PoWa (203)
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