Hi Robert, Thank you for your reply. Very helpful info in it.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Robert Kesterson wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Javier Hernandez wrote: > > I got some DV raw material [Analog Camera --> Canopus Box --> Firewire] > > with kino (I know it can be done also with dvgrab). > > I did run that DV raw material with MPlayer in my computer: > > - Audio is great aceptable. > > - Video quality is not perfect but it is acceptable. > > Although when looking at that movie on the TV with the Analog Camera > > connected to the TV set, I would say that the quality of video is better; > > maybe not much better but some more clear. I guess it is normal or > > maybe that is a stupid comparation. > > My main doubt: > > Can I get a better quality of "Video" than the one > > at the DV raw material ? > The video quality from the Canopus units is outstanding. What you're > noticing is that computer monitors and televisions are very different in > how they display things. A 320 x 240 MPEG that looks really nice on the > television will usually look horrid on the computer. You'll see it at > higher resolutions, too. I was not trying to criticize the Canopus ADVC-100. I think it is a marvellous box. Sorry if my poor English tended to express that way. Maybe I was dissapointed with my first few works when converting from Analog to Divx. Maybe I was trying to compare that with the ripped DVDs works. :-)) > The trouble is that tlelevision has no idea of "pixels" like computers do. > They operate on an analog signal, which doesn't really have discrete > "dots" like a computer picture does. This is good for television -- it >... Very great explanation. Thanks. > I can tell you this - I've done several hours worth of conversions with > the Canopus box, denoised and enocded back to MPEG2 and burned to DVD, and > the results frequently look *better* on the television than the original > analog sources did (probably due to the denoising and cropping out the > "tape noise" at the edges). For the moment I am watching the movies on the computer but I expect to look at them in the TV in the future, so I would get some more improvement too. :)) Best regards, -- Javi, _____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.europa3.com/users/fjherna/ \_____(X)_(_)_(X)_____/ http://www.valux.org/ ____________!___!___!_________Valencia(Spain) =================================================================== You will be traveling and coming into a fortune. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users