I get many mails through my site about this and today a member here asked about it too. So I thought it was about time to put a little video together. For most of us capturing video isn't anything special but to those new to the idea it can be a bit of a mystery since most capture cards have lag so playing direct on the PC screen isn't possible. I hope this little video in 1080p as well :thumbsup: can help those looking for an answer. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7Kr3OdAD8 Yakumo PS: check out those blacks on the screen :clap:
Nice video! 720 actually is an HD resolution though, DVD is 480. And I like that way of storing Saturn games too...
I think he was referring to the horizontal resolution. Anyway, that was cool. I thought you recorded with RGB, though. I like the game organizer you have there - what do you do with the original cases? Do you keep them somewhere? Personally I keep all the original boxes on a shelf and put just the discs themselves in a disc organizer.
@tatsujin, hehehe at least you didn't think I was Scottish @7Force, sorry I meant that it was DVD 480 x 720 resolution. @la-li-lu-le-lo, In the past I did use RGB to capture video on a lag free capture card it was made by Buffalo and had it's very own CPU on board So even my crappy 1.4ghz PC at the time could capture 720x480 high quality MPEG2 in real time with no lag at all Sadly that card died so now I have a cheaper one without RGB The S-Video on it though is very nice I do have a lot of my original cases in storage but only the ones that aren't scratched. By the end of this year I hope to have all my Saturn games back in cases since I now have space at home. Originally I lived in a small apartment but since buying my house last March theres lots of space. I do recommend the system I have for anyone low on space though. Everythinv is kept crisp and fresh Nd the discs are in lint free pouched inside the plast sleve that holds the covers, instructions and anything else.
I have a question about the capture card you use: how does it handle 240p content? It seems like that's the majority of what you capture. Does it try to deinterlace it like most crappy TV's do, or does it linedouble it to get a 480p image? I've become very interested in this sort of thing lately.
It will record it as an interlaced video or you can set an option to deinterlace it. The card is a few years old now but it has more video options and filters than a highend TV. It doesn't seem to matter what input you feed it. The end result is always the same as what you'd get from plugging the console in to a TV. So Dreamcast or High resolution Saturn games capture with sharp crips edges how it sould be while MegaDrive or something like that looks well.... How it looks on a TV, a bit shit tk be honest jf you are really concerned about quality.
Hm... but 240p content isn't interlaced, so why would you record it as interlaced? I've noticed that in some of your videos there's a faint trail that follows quickly moving images. That's probably because your computer is blending two frames together as if they're two fields when they're really two separate images. There's probably a capture program out there somewhere that's made for recording 240p material. Or maybe if you didn't deinterlace it it would look correct? I don't know. Of course, if you're recording a Dreamcast game that's 480i, so it probably should be deinterlaced. Same for high resolution Saturn games. I'm not sure if what I just said makes sense. I think I have a fever.
Perhaps Yakumo made a thought processing error when he wrote that haha. Because 240P obviously means progressive, he probably just meant Interlaced Content will be De-Interlaced or recorded as Interlaced video. Anyways, this is a nice video, I had a capture card years ago and I wasn't smart enough back then to even remotely think of splitting the signal so I can play on the tv while it records on the PC. Also, the blacks on that LCD ARE NICE. Got a product link to that on Amazon? I'd like to see how much it cost haha. (In US $ btw)
Sorry, I wrote the above post on the phone in work so I wasn't thinking right. OK, for low resolution consoles such as the MD the capture card will record in either the native resolution of the console as default or you can interlace it. Either way the resulting video file will either be in 240p or if interlaced at 720x480. That's because all videos are deinterlaced. I experimented a lot with video field resulting in many different results. Overall, blending the two fields together provided the best results. Interlaced video suffers from lines through the image when objects move horizontally at speeds. It also increases the file size and decreases quality if using a low bit rate. On the plus side, interlaced video looks sharper and looks fantastic on a TV but not so on a PC. I would think so but you'd probably have to pay for it. Basically interlaced video on a PC looks like crap. They sure are. Liek I said in another thread, the new style LED screens are vastly improved over the older type. YOu can see all the Toshiba Regza range here - http://www.toshiba.co.jp/regza/ My TV is part of the Z range of LEDs. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/regza/lineup/z1/index_j.htm
Nice video Yakumo. For the longest time I was using a Adaptec Gamebridge and boy is it shit. For record PS3 Xbox or Gamecube its perfect minus the less than 1 second lag. but it wont record anything that is 60hz Pal but will on the american version *which wont work on eu consoles* It also has a tendency to HATE sega consoles and refuses to record off them. 50hz pal or not.
Some TVs can use one of the inputs (normally composite) as an output. This option can be found in the TVs set up menus. This is how I used to capture video using my old TV. Console to TV then TV to capture card. Worked great but was stuck with shitty composite. Before that TV I used a home made switch box ( again composite) so this gave me the idea of going back to the switch box rout when I got the HD TV.
