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Offline TomasTopic starter

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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 18, 2007, 06:15:58 PM »
RGB capture cards are AFAIK only available for industrial purposes (=very pricey).
A very easy way to get near RGB quality through SVideo:
- get a decent Supervideo genlock (my Hama 292 was 8€, it's OK but not great)
- get a PVR card with hardware compression, use only highest bitrate (my Hauppage PVR PCI was ~15€)
  or a DV bridge and capture through Firewire (marginally better quality)
  or use the VideoIn of your graphics card (quality varies widely depending on hardware/driver/CPU speed)
- convert to MPEG-2/lower bitrate with a decent software compression, I like TMPGEnc a lot.

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.
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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2007, 06:40:18 PM »
some latest DVD recorder (Philips with HD) supports RGB recording.

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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2007, 06:53:40 PM »
Can't you use the video output of WinUAE?
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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #4 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 #5 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.
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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2007, 05:55:32 AM »
Your best option is to use a SuperGen SX genlock, S-Video out to a PC with a decent video capture board (such as a Pinnacle AV/DV).

I've also recently discovered the Neobitz RGB to S-Video adapter works on NTSC Amigas, and has comparable video quality to the SGSX. http://www.neobitz.com/
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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2007, 10:34:41 AM »
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Tomas wrote:

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.

Hmm... 704x576 x 25 x 24 / 8 = 30 MB/s = 1.8 GB/min
Sounds like fun...
The highest bit rate of our WinTV PVR 350 is 12 Mbps with a very pretty quality, a lot better than any DVD recorder I've seen yet. Can't see much difference to the output of our DV bridge (Rainbow something).

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Where can one get a supervideo genlock these days anyways?

Used? Very nice and very cheap.
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Re: Capturing amiga rgb into mpeg2
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2007, 10:46:24 AM »
A Lola 2000 will work too.
I am still kicking myself for not getting the one that went for £5 on ebay a year ago.
I could have kept it as a spare.
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