So Geforce 4 Ti4200's are good for editing then?

Ikasu · Post by **Ikasu** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 7:34 pm

I want to DVD rip...But the idiots who configured my Dual Processor system have everything jacked up....I'm gonna sell this computer and get a better one from my friend....Hopefully I can sell this pc for 2,400....The specs of this pc are just insane.....But damn that configuration...

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 7:36 pm

Ikasu wrote:I want to DVD rip...But the idiots who configured my Dual Processor system have everything jacked up....I'm gonna sell this computer and get a better one from my friend....Hopefully I can sell this pc for 2,400....The specs of this pc are just insane.....But damn that configuration...

Dude what the fuck is wrong with your computer. I don't care that your computer sucks. Fix It

~klinky

Legend Killer · Post by **Legend Killer** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 9:40 pm

Well, I finally got my new puter & it rocks!

Its got both a GF4 Ti4200 & a DVD/burner combo drive.

Hope to make my first AMV soon....

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 11:38 pm

Actually, if you can get a non-Macromedia feed from a good DVD player into a video card that captures real-time non-compressed footage, would that not have better quality than a pure DVD rip simply because of the hardware filters present in DVD players?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 3:26 am

alternatefutures wrote:Actually, if you can get a non-Macromedia feed from a good DVD player into a video card that captures real-time non-compressed footage, would that not have better quality than a pure DVD rip simply because of the hardware filters present in DVD players?

You mean macrovision.

I believe that would be "possible", but most any filter that the DVD player or the capture card does can be done in software. Also finding a card that captures realtime uncompressed would be hard, though huffYUV is a option. I believe it's easier to just rip the DVD and get to work, rather then getting exspensive high-kwality cables, worry about macrovision, not have all the footage I may need. Which in the end it probably won't look any better and has the high probability of looking worse.

~klinky

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:38 am

klinky wrote:Also finding a card that captures realtime uncompressed would be hard, though huffYUV is a option.

I've been able to capture uncompressed video with my All-In-Wonder Radeon, the big problem is hard disk bandwidth. Even 7200RPM drives have only a sustained transfer rate around 30MB/s which usually is just barely enough to keep up with a YUV stream. Though I dont' see any advantage to capturing it uncompressed when there's huffyuv.

Still any filters present on the DVD player are not enough insentive to capture the video in this manner.