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I have been working with this card ( Creative DVCR)for 2 week's now....and I am not happy with the result. I am trying to make SVCD with video's from my analogue VCR.
I have been reading many info over the net.
For example....the final result look like this(svcd) : moving water is pixelised, hair to (small box)....is this the best result we can get ???
Here is what I Do
1-Grab the picture with my card (best quality)
2-Convert it with the Creative tool's
3-Then use Ulead DVD Movie factory
You would be better off useing some software to Capture to a Extremely high bitrate mpeg or a Low compression AVI format at High resolution then encodeing the captured file to SVCD...
Well So far I have owned 4 Capture cards, the First was a Hauppauge WinTV USB and it Totally Sucked, the second was a "16Mb AGP All in Wonder" and it wasn"t that Bad and it was really inexpensive accept that it is a 16mb Graphics card also and it was really bad at Video display , the Third was an "ATI TV Wonder VE" which I thought was going to be a Terrorable Card but was pleasantly surprised to find out that is was OK for Captureing From TV and VHS but it still wasn"t nearly good enough for the Quality that I wanted, so I just got a "ATI All in Wonder Radeon 8500DV" and so Far it isn"t too Bad, it is better than the others I have owned and Captureing from Good Quality VHS Tapes I get Really good Quality, But it isn"t as Good as I thought it was going to be but then I just got it less than 2 weeks ago so I am still trying to find the best settings..The Best Quality set up that I have heard about from others is the "Canopus ADVC-100" it converts the Analog TV or VHS signal to a Digital signal and it is captured through a Firewire Port, the Capture is nearly lossless and it uses a High Quality Canopus DV Codec and the Audio and video signal is Locked together so there is no chance of sync Problems.I have never heard of a Single Bad thing from this setup accept that it is more expensive than most consumer Capture setups but still cheaper than most profecinal setups, it costs about $250-$300 US....
I got the Creative Video Blaster hardware encoder, which gives good Picture and Sound, but it is done in a non standard way, 640X480 Video and 32Khz Audio. It has a built in TV Tuner, it has an IR remote control, and analog inputs (S and C Video). There is some hacking going on, to make it capture at 720X480, but the sound is still sapled at 32khz. Now that the audio and video are captured, the audio can be S/W resampled to 44khz, then the resulting MPEG-2 can be re-encoded to SVCD or VCD. If you use Ulead to re-encode 640X480, and audio 32khz audio, you just distroyed the video. Ulead is very picky about what input it has. Use Ulead to capture the video into SVCD directly using the Video Blaster(not use the hardware encoder) as a capture card. Then use that MPEG-2 to make your SVCD. The results should be a lot better. The encoder is $49.95 at CompUSA! if anyone is interested!!!
The procuct is called Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR. It works great as a stand alone unit, recording TV Shows or Encoding VHS, SVHS C-Video. You play it back and it looks great, but, it is nonstandard, Video 640X480 and 32Khz audio. There is a hack available to force the card to capture 720X480 video, but the Audio is still stuck at 32khz. There are many S/W resample programs and the audio can be converted to 44khz. I have yet to get the hack, still fooling with the 640X480 video and the nonstandard audio. Using the DVCR by itself is great but there must be a way to get the video onto CDs or DVDs.