Video capture software

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:53 am

The software that came with the capture card I have is complete and total fucking shit. What I need to know is if there is other software out there that is compatable with with my card. its an ADS instant DVD or something.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 1:04 am

you can always try VirtualDub ^_^

Unless it's some custom job, it should work.

~klinky

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 1:39 am

virtual dub can cature movies? damn, I've had it this whole time and never knew that.

btw, I also found video and autio outs on that capture card, wtf else is there that this crap I have can do that I don't know of?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:23 am

CaTaClYsM wrote:virtual dub can cature movies? damn, I've had it this whole time and never knew that.
btw, I also found video and autio outs on that capture card, wtf else is there that this crap I have can do that I don't know of?

*coff* *coff* manual *coff* *coff*

From a promo website we have the following:

Convert Videotapes to DVD, MPEG2, MPEG1, VCD or SVCD
Capture video then burn DVD movies*
Burn movies on DVD or CD-RW*
Edit video and send back to VCR
* Additional hardware required.

Also the device is USB

USB atleast would meet the 9mbits required for DVDs... I guess

I doubt you can use VirtualDub with it though.

~klinky

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:28 am

USB only does up to 6MBit/sec AFAIK.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:47 am

USB 1.1 is 12mbits/sec

http://www.usb.org/faq/ wrote: Q1: How fast is USB?
A1: High speed USB products[usb 2.0]have a design data rate of 480 Mb/s. Full speed USB devices[usb 1.1] signal at 12Mb/s, while low speed devices use a 1.5Mb/s subchannel.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:48 am

Video Capture:
Real-time encoding of analog video to the following formats:
Full D1 MPEG 2 broadcast resolution (704 x 480 NTSC / 704 x 576 PAL)
½ D1 MPEG2 (352 x 480 NTSC / 352 x 576 PAL)
VCD MPEG 1 (352 x 240 NTSC / 352 x 288 PAL)
Frame Rates: 29,97 NTSC and 25 fps PAL
Video Bit Rate: 1.5 Mb/sec to 5 Mb/sec Constant Bit Rate encoding (CBR)
Audio Bit Rate: 128 Kbits/sec., 224 Kbits/sec., 384 Kbits/sec
Connection to PC: USB 1.0

Taken from Instant DVD Spec's.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:51 am

Yeah, even though USB (1.1, anyway) can theoreticaly do 12 Mbps, you're more likely to get half that, because of junk bits, idle devices, transaction headers, and so on.

On a good day, you might get 8 Mbps.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:52 am

trythil wrote:Yeah, even though USB (1.1, anyway) can theoreticaly do 12 Mbps, you're more likely to get half that, because of junk bits, idle devices, transaction headers, and so on.

On a good day, you might get 8 Mbps.

Yes, just like 100mbit ethernet... ^_^

~klinky

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:55 am

klinky wrote:
trythil wrote:Yeah, even though USB (1.1, anyway) can theoreticaly do 12 Mbps, you're more likely to get half that, because of junk bits, idle devices, transaction headers, and so on.

On a good day, you might get 8 Mbps.
Yes, just like 100mbit ethernet... ^_^

~klinky

Well, close. USB clogs much more of its bandwidth with non-user data than Ethernet does (theoretical maximum bandwidth available for user data for USB and Ethernet is something like 80% vs. 95%, IIRC -- go Google it)

Additionally, you can speed up Ethernet by fully microsegmenting your network (which is just a fancy way of saying "use only switches and bridges"). You can't do that with USB, which is part of the reason why even idle devices can affect the available throughput.