does anyone using DARIM M-FILTER with BROADWAY PRO ? currently i'm using DUALPASS method for creating mpeg(AVI-MPEG)so i intend to get m-filter to do real-time mpeg encoding ,by using m-filter does it improves the mpeg real-time encoding ? thanks

-- mpg1vcd (mpg1vcd@yahoo.com), August 29, 2000

Answers

I have both of those cards. Here is what I do (I got a Pentium 3 which helps alot with anything video related). I capture to AVI my TV tuner card at 640X480 resolution (and using the huffyuv AVI coded which looks just as good as uncompressed AVI but much less space) but I have my M-filter going into my TV tuner card to clean up video. I edit that AVI (if i need to, since MPEG is not a good editing format). Then with virtual dub, i use the fserve part of the program to send the AVI to my Broadway card (while resizing to 352X240 and deinterlacing) since the Broadway can convert AVI to MPEG in realtime with a Pentium 3 CPU.

I have found that this is the absolute best method for creating VCD's since capturing to AVI (at 640X480)then converting to MPEG (with hardware since it is faster) makes the video smoother and less blocky. My VCD's are pro quality. But this method needs alot of disk space.

-- MrVCD (mrvcd@juno.com), September 04, 2000.