On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 09:19 AM, Don Wakefield wrote:
I have had only limited and I must say disappointing success at making VCD archives of older VHS tapes. Admittedly I am not using brand new "state of the art" equipment but my 7600 is Sonnet upgraded to 450 Meg G4 generation and I do have a 7200rpm SCSI hard drive. I can't help wondering if everyone is taking as much time to accomplish this conversion?
You have a slow, slow 55 mhz system bus. That's probably what's killing the process. You also don't mention how much memory you have, your OS, and method you're capturing the video.
The final result when played in my DVD was blurry, jerky, and showed a lot of color banding or bulls eye color ring effects on large gradation areas. It by no way could be described as VHS equal and with the transfer time of over one hour for seven minutes of this quality, how long would 30 or 60 minutes take? Will any of us live that long?
You also don't mention the amount of compression used, and what the scene was...there are some scene types (fast movement, rapid color changes, etc) that will always crap out in VCD format...but think: you're cramming nearly an hour of full motion video into only 660 mb. How much space did the original captured footage take?
What I would do is rent or buy a commercial VCD or two (they're cheap) and watch them to see what kind of quality you can expect out of them.
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