Friday, February 13, 2004

VirtualVCR Settings

Using my Hauppauge WinTV-dbx card with VirtualVCR, I think I have everything locked down at the moment. Things I didn't mention last time were the detailed settings that I use:

File
- insert time stamp into filename
- save the capture stats

Video
- 720x480, YUV2 colour format, 29.970 frame rate
- PICVideo MJPEG Compressor, using default settings of Q19 (luminance quality 5, chromicance quality 6, 2 fields if more then 240 lines, 4/2/2 sub-sampling, MJPEG data rates)

Video, Device Settings
- NTSC_M standard
- Video Proc Amp: Brightness 5373, Contrast 5572, Hue 5038, Saturation 5038 (my video card / VCR seems to make the images a touch dark)

Filters
- none

Audio
- 16 bit resolution, 48kHz, Stereo, no compression (48kHz is standard for DVD)

Audio, Input Settings
- Balance 0, Volume 70, Line In (gives me a signal that peaks around -1 or -2 dB when analyzed in Cool Edit 2000)

AV Sync
- no sync settings used, the audio off of the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card is stable enough not to cause sync issues (longest cap segment that I've done so far is only around 20 min though)

Everything else is standard Virtual VCR settings. The "Video Proc Amp" and the audio level settings are about the only thing that I've had to muck with so far.

posted by Wuphon's at 7:53 PM