Hi. I wanna know if anyone ever attempted to capture video from a Dreamcast outputting VGA signal?? I wonder if it works... What should I be looking for?
Which isn't going to be easy to find. If your looking for the max quality to capture from a dreamcast the easy version would be to capture through s-video (which can look damn good). If you must capture through VGA your bets bet would be to convert VGA to component and get a component capture card but that whole setup would be north of $500.
A rather round-about method might be using a TV that has a VGA input and crossing your fingers and hoping it has an output something can use. I can't think of anything that could capture native VGA without having it converted somehow. Might be able to run it into HDMI or something.
couldn't you just get a simple vga-> component adapter and a card that can capture 480p component? like the Hauppauge HD PVR there shouldn't be much difference between the signals; if there is, it's nothing software can't overcome
I just entered "vga capture card" in google and got tons of results that are exactly what you are asking about. Most of them didn't list prices, though. Might be expensive, but they'll do what you want. Also, S-Video is better than composite, but it's nowhere near as good as VGA. I guess it depends on why you want to capture video from a Dreamcast.
I captured video with a 3rd party VGA box that also offered S-Video out. The quality of the S-Video output was really great, but it's not as pixel perfect as VGA. And you have to deal with interlacing too. As some people suggested, converting to component is your best option. Make sure when you get a capture device with component inputs that it's able to capture progressive video.
I believe you need to get a legit converter to go from VGA to component. And a Hauppauge HD PVR compress the video before you even get to touch it so it would be better to capture uncompressed S-video.
I wanted to broadcast some PSO videos on youtube, and since everyone's doing it with shitty quality, I would like to introduce something new. With VGA resolution, I would bring the best graphics the DC can handle to the viewers enjoyment. It could be interesting to show people what the Dreamcast is really capable of, which I think most of them aren't aware of. Off-topic: Is there any reliable adapter to convert a GC component cable to VGA?
Get one of those Lenkeng component to VGA boxes. They are on ebay all the time and their quality is good. You have to look for this one: http://www.hdmi01.com/products.asp?class=9
Hmm, they're expensive... isn't there any way to make a mod? I wanna try to achieve this quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWE7flihkZA&hd=1 Back to the topic: Here's probably one of the best video captures on youtube, however you can see some weird stripes when the char moves along with the camera angle, mainly while killing monsters... why does this happen?
Well the quality in the Youtube video you can easily achieve with S-Video. No need for expensive component capturing hardware. If Google hadn't taken down my Youtube account, I could have shown you some nice examples. I had video's of the Shenmue Passport disc. The quality was really nice, better then the PSO video. An online Japanese video game magazine even linked to them in an article about the Dreamcast. Do you already have S-Video capture hardware? Just learn VirtualDub and AviSynth if you are on Windows. You can surpass the quality you see in the PSO video with that.
orly? Nice! Well, maybe you're right, I don't wanna spend money on that so I guess I'll stick with the s-video. I bought a while ago a "portable" video card called EasyCAP. In the first few vids the quality was pretty sweet, however not after to much use, I say.. after 2 days or so, the vid. quality started to decrease and those striped lines began to appear and ruined the whole thing. I don't know what happened since I got all the same settings for the video capturing. Today I took it out my closet and decided to try it out and man.. I'm having trouble with the drivers... I got the trash can nearby, I guess I'll give it a throw!:flamethrower:
Incorrect. Ive used a 2 dollar cable to connect my component ps3 to my minitor. Using alternative software you can capture uncompressed from the pvr op i would suggest vga over svideo. And why not just use blue burst? Its free to play and capture
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Yeah I think you can go VGA to component, if the dreamcast gives out compatible resolutions. And software can't change the fact that the HD-PVR connects to a computer through USB. If you want to capture uncompressed HD (which is overkill) your going to need a really big SSD or a RAID set up so you can get something that can write the data rates fast enough and hold more than 5 seconds worth of footage. Don't call someone incorrect unless your completely right ;-)
I've got a 920corei7 with raid setup and all that, so I'm fine with the hardware setup. So what's the big deal? That Lenkeng box?
uncompressed hd would be a HUGE pain in the ass to capture. the dc only does 640x480. still a lot of space, but hard drive space is cheap. to the op- i don't think uncompressed video is necessary. i'm just an advocate for starting with a good source. *looks like the hd pvr is compressed on a hardware level so no getting around that. if you'd like to see the kind of video quality you'd get, look here the black magic shuttle supports 480p but it requires usb3
A small note: if you convert to component you're going to lose a bit of quality. It's pretty much guaranteed that if you convert one analog format to another you're going to lose some quality. Whether it's significant enough to matter for what you're doing with it, I don't know.
