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Message by rich-nz on Saturday, August 09, 2003 at 05:45
Location: New Zealand Joined: Saturday, August 09, 2003 Posts: 1 Profile Search www Quote

I do hours of this each week using Osprey 100, 220 230 and 2000 cards. The Osprey 2000 does it in hardware and is no longer available (it seems). With the Osprey 100, 200 and 230 use windows 98 and CineplayerDVR. Originally it was written by Cinax, taken over by Ravisent. Now Sonic seem to have gobbled it up and hiddeen it. It is just GREAT.

http://www.cineplayer.com/support/

It produces very good mpeg-1 at 352x288 PAL at around 600meg per hour. And is just so stable. Brilliant. I have 3 old copies that just rock. With the Osprey cards its all so easy.

The Cineplayer Editor is also awesome. Edit hours of video in a few minutes as mpeg-1.

Looks like SOnic took it off the market to push people into DVD. But for simple CD ROM, VideoCD these products are great. Use a cpu of 450MHz and above, turn off preview, click record on the PC and your files just work.. I use digital cameras, but analog capture in real time. Just soo easy. Look at the videos at www.r2.co.nz they were all done this way.

rich

Message by willikr on Monday, August 04, 2003 at 10:41
Location: United States Joined: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Posts: 2 Profile Search Quote

Thanks. I'll try that, but I REALLY don't want to have to re-encode. I bought this card because I didn't want to have to re-encode, Did I make a mistake? I already had the ability to capture VIA firewire [1 hr = 11GB] and reencode using tmpegenc. But that re-encoed takes 2-3 hours of additional time. I cannot afford that kind of time lag. That's why I bought the card that Osprey recommended to capture to mpeg1. The REP. told me I could capture in MPEG1... What's Up???

Message by Steven_L on Friday, August 01, 2003 at 15:39
Location: United States Joined: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Posts: 2 Profile Search Quote

It could be related to the color format you are using - for best results and smallest resulting filesizes we usually recommend one of the YUV color fomats, such as 4:2:2 packed. Whether you are encoding a VBR file or a CBR file can also impact the outcome of the file size.

Your best bet is to start at some of the MPEG1 sites. I would recommend that you start by looking at http://www.tmpgenc.com for a low cost MPEG encoder. For a comprehensive site on MPEG encoding for DVD and VCD (VCD is MPEG1 CBR, usually) I would recommend checking out http://www.vcdhelp.com.

Message by willikr on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 17:01
Location: United States Joined: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Posts: 2 Profile Search Quote

I just bought a 210 card for the purpose of capturing classes and putting them on a CD.

I need to get 1 hour of video onto a 700MB CD. I have been using a VCD recorder, copying the mpeg1 file it creates and using automenu studio to make it autorun on a computer.

I only need these to run on a computer, but I do need at least mpeg1 quality and I DONOT want to have to re-encode the file once captured.

PLZ Help!!! What are the settings I need to use??? My first try resulted in a 14GB file at 53 minutes of video at 320x240x29.97 frames with cinepak compressor and 44,100 Khz, 16 bit stereo.

I can use TMGEPENC to encode it to MPEG1, but I can't afford the time it takes to reprocess the original clip.

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