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Learn about my video capture shenanigans
Hi, I'm bigfish and this is Jackass. As some of you people know, I got myself a VCR a short while back. Never would've thought, but now I'm working on video transfer for locals in exchange for money :-)
Open virtualdub, start capture (from philips saa7130 capture-card), end up with like 127gb worth of footage, compress it with TMPGenc, with 60fps deinterlace (cutting out any tracking errors) to mpeg-1 under 1/1.5gigs that doesn't look horrid..
What was the problem with this process? The fact sometimes tapes with tracking-errors would crap out and end up with "slow motion" audio/video (roughly slowed down by 3.5x), sometimes a/v would go back to regular speed but then end up with the problem again...De-sync anyone? ;'(
Nowadays the capture setup has improved a little bit, and allows me to capture tapes in mass, thanks to the software iuVCR,that runs the best on my computers that i have tried it with.
My software of choice has got to be TMPGEnc, despite its oldness and how archaic it can be at times. When on low motion detection videos can still look good, and thanks to the bitrate calculation in XPress, the mpeg1 output always looks pretty good. Bitrates of choice are probably 1200kb/s, 3800kb/s (best-looking ,but big filesize). Depending on source (TV,camera, second vcr) it will be encoded with MONO or STEREO audio at 160kb/s. Most tapes I've gone through thanks to my client have been a load of VHS tapes which are dubbed from a Panasonic Palmcorder c. 1998. Those are all hi-fi mono (weird.).
Long Live Chile, Mierda!!!
est. 2026 ~ most text copyrighted since 2026 by bigfish
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