"Steven M. Schultz" wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Ted Huntington wrote:
>
> >I would like to skip the step of analog to DV(mjpeg avi), DV to mpeg-2 encoding
>
>         DV != mjpeg

So how do you go from VHS to DV (.avi)?

>
> > with a Hauppauge card (now I have DC10+).  That is too labor intensive.
>
>         No labor at all - the computer's doing all the hard work :-)

I guess time intensive.



>         I presume you're thinking of either the Hauppauge 250 or the 350
>         (the 350 has a MPEG-2 decoder while the 250 does not).   Since I have
>         no recent experience with the Hauppauge products (not since the WinTV
>         era) I can't say how good the quality of encoding compares to that of
>         mpeg2enc.   I do suspect that mpeg2enc will give higher quality
>         because it offers more places to adjust the encoding parameters (use
>         alternate quantization matrices, perform single coefficient elimination,
>         specify if B frames (and how many) should be used or not,  set the
>         4x4 and 2x2 searching parameters, alter the HF quantization, and so on).
>         Then there's being able to process the data thru the wide range of
>         filters available.

still, videotape quality is not good anyway.

Ted!

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