I had a LiveView Flyvideo capture card that allowed me to use the mpeg4 video codec to encode an avi file, and it captured about 15 fps and the quality was very good,...but i why can't i use it in the all in wonder card. Is there a way i can make the ati all in wonder see and use the mpeg4 codec installed on my computer to encode an avi file?

thanks

-- annoyed lil bugger (ammodium@hotmail.com), December 05, 2000

Answers

Ati makes nice capture cards but their software leaves a lot to be desired. Download Virtual Dub. It's free and you will be amazed at the features. You can tweak the many knobs (videosize, frame rate, codecs, tec) and really squeeze the max performance within the limits of your harware.

VD will capture, edit, and recompress.

Unless your capturing on a Cray, I wouldn't even try to capture MPG4 on the fly. Capture uncompressed and recompress to MPG4.

me

-- me (snake_mountain@hotmail.com), December 06, 2000.

hmmmm...my pc must have been a cray in disquise then, because it's AMD K7 900Mhz and it captured mpeg4 on the fly using ATI AIW and Virtual Dub. It can be done. To encoding mpeg4 on the fly at 352x240@29.97fps all you need is a 600Mhz CPU. If you want to increase the frame size to 480x360 (Max size achievable at 900Mhz) then you have to drop the fps down to 15fps. However, when you increase the frame size, you will run into interlacing issues, but VirtualDub is a great program that gives you an alternative to filter the darn interlacing while capturing/encoding as well. This filtering option will cost you additional CPU power, 900Mhz-1G. If you don't want to upgrade the CPU, then stay at 400x300 max.

-- lnguyen (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), December 06, 2000.