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--Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP Pro.. Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor, but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a small photo that has been enlarged to much. These old tapes display just fine on my 25” analog TV and I am playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on, so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what. Settings a WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display Size 320 x 240. System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don’t have a clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated. Linusverl |
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Linus wrote:
--Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP Pro.. Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor, but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a small photo that has been enlarged to much. These old tapes display just fine on my 25" analog TV and I am playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on, so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. Settings a WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display Size 320 x 240. System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don't have a clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated. Linusverl ============================= Can the 320x240 setting be changed to something larger? -- John Inzer MS Picture It! - Digital Image MVP Digital Image Highlights and FAQs http://tinyurl.com/aczzp Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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ATI recording software isnt very good,all you do need are the drivers for the
PCI TV card,for software download wm encoder + the utilities,the encoder can capture & let you view the video from tv,and for genrl viewing,the WMCAP utility works well.Once youve captured the video,convert thru the encoder... "Linus" wrote: --Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP Pro.. Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor, but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a small photo that has been enlarged to much. These old tapes display just fine on my 25” analog TV and I am playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on, so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what. Settings a WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display Size 320 x 240. System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don’t have a clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated. Linusverl |
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Thank‘s for your reply John, I used the 320 X 240 Display setting because
it’s displayed by the card as being “The best match for the capabilities of Your system.” But after fooling with this thing for a few hours I have been able to double the Display size to 640 x 480. I had to give up my ability to set the bit rate and the frame rate though. At the 640 x 480 size the frame rate is locked at 30 Frames per second and the bit rate just shows “Variable bit rate” and it looks like this is the largest choice I have. I captured some tape at this new size and when it played back on my monitor (19”crt) the video looks pretty good, but I wonder what it will look like on a larger screen. I would be interested in hearing what display size other people use for capture, also their bit rate and frame speed. -- Linusverl "John Inzer" wrote: Linus wrote: --Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP Pro.. Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor, but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a small photo that has been enlarged to much. These old tapes display just fine on my 25" analog TV and I am playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on, so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. Settings a WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display Size 320 x 240. System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don't have a clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated. Linusverl ============================= Can the 320x240 setting be changed to something larger? -- John Inzer MS Picture It! - Digital Image MVP Digital Image Highlights and FAQs http://tinyurl.com/aczzp Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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Thank you Andrew E. for your reply. The Catalyst ATI Software that came on my
disk was not usable with XP Pro. & kept locking up my machine. I down loaded a version from their website but it did the same thing. All I am using now are their drivers which I downloaded separately from their website. I assume it’s the Windows software that’s making this thing work now. The movies capture as wmv and I can play them from the hard drive, but clips capture as mpeg-2 and I get a notice that I must buy a codec before I can see them. My machine is newly built and the board only has SATA connectors, people tell me the only burner that will work with the board is a new brand called “Lite On.” I have not bought one yet, hoping Samsung or Pioneer will make one I can use that comes with good software to edit & burn. But I never fooled with computer video before, only involved now because my camcorder is 20 Years old and only plays back and down loads via a one wire antenna connection. Don’t really know any thing about this so appreciate any advice I can get. -- Linusverl "Andrew E." wrote: ATI recording software isnt very good,all you do need are the drivers for the PCI TV card,for software download wm encoder + the utilities,the encoder can capture & let you view the video from tv,and for genrl viewing,the WMCAP utility works well.Once youve captured the video,convert thru the encoder... "Linus" wrote: --Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP Pro.. Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor, but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a small photo that has been enlarged to much. These old tapes display just fine on my 25” analog TV and I am playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on, so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what. Settings a WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display Size 320 x 240. System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don’t have a clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated. Linusverl |
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