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Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« on: January 18, 2007, 04:03:19 PM »
Does anyone know of any dvd record or a capture card that supports RGB over scart or similar? I want to transfer my Amiga demos into high quality video. Composite will just not cut it quality wise. Thanks in advance.
 

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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2007, 11:54:43 PM »
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I wouldn't recommend converting directly to DVD rate MPEG-2: consumer hardware generates numerous artifacts, esp. when dealing with high contrast/hard edges video like the one you're likely to capture here.

Even if you record at the highest possible bitrate?
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get a PVR card with hardware compression, use only highest bitrate (my Hauppage PVR PCI was ~15€)

I think using a non lossy software codec would be better option though..
My plan was to record either uncompressed or with a dvd record at highest possible bitrate and then re encode it to mpeg2 using software like tmpgenc on a pc or similar.

Where can one get a supervideo genlock these days anyways?
 

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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2007, 11:56:20 PM »
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Can't you use the video output of WinUAE?

I want it to be perfect, so that you get as close experience to the real thing as possible.