Posted by Rick Merrill on 09/01/06 13:46

Doc wrote:
> Exploring this mpeg capture option, is there anything to be gained by
> capturing tape that was recorded in DV - Dig8 in this case - and capturing
> as mpeg2 via Firewire?
>
> Pinnacle Studio gives a max bitrate of 8200 kbits/sec which it seems to
> handle fine. Under Power Director, which came along with a Turtle Beach
> Video Advantage capture card, there are more options, though I don't know if
> this is necessarily useful or not, the maxed out rate is apparently too much
> for this P4 2.4 gig machine as I get intermittent choppiness in the
> resulting video, even though it does it on a non-realtime buffered basis and
> continues encoding for several minutes longer.
>
> If there's no advantage of capturing DV as mpeg2, when or why would you use
> mpeg2 capture?

It plays directly on a video server. It is also pretty compact. And you
should be able to convert it to .VOB files for DVD.

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