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What codec are you capturing to? What's the spec of your pc?

If you're capping from TV, as long as you capture at 640*480 or so, you should be ok quality wise.

If you've got loads of hard drive space, i'd advise you to cpture to huffyuv/uncompressed wav first, using IUvcr.

Then load it into virtualdub, trim it, deinterlace it and resize it, then make your output file an xvid. remember 2 passes. now delete the capture file, and you're sorted.


If you've got less hard drive space, but a fast CPU, i'd suggest HIGH bitrate mpeg2 or mpeg4 depending on what software you have.

If you don't have software that will capture to mpeg2, then for mpeg4 i'd suggest using IUvcr to capture to xvid. VERY high bitrate xvid. Give it 8mbit/sec and see how you go. If you're not dropping frames, you're laughing.

Once it's captured, load it into virtualdub-mpeg2 and do the trimming, deinterlacing and resizing like before, and output to xvid like above.

Ideally, you wouldn't capture to a lossy compression codec like mpeg2 or mpeg4, but if you're short on space, it can't be helped.

You'll get best results capturing to huffyuv and wav, then reencoding to xvid once it's captured. you should almost always never have the captured file as your end result, it won't be as efficient (size/quality) as you can get by doing a 2-pass encode, which you obviously can't do straight from capture.

By using a 2-pass encode, you can maximise quality for specific file sizes, and that makes it FAR easier to store your caps.