Roger wrote:

> so the variance in quality of recording between a vhs tape & DSS/Cable
> box is drastic.  i think the quality of the vhs tape also has allot to
> do with it because as a tape gets older, there tends to be more abnormal
> colors on playback (greens, fuzz, etc)...


If you're trying to compress crappy quality video, you'd benefit if you 
clean it up with a filter first (else you're just wasting bits encoding 
noise).VirtualDub would be the obvious tool to do it.

> also, maybe becuase it was
> recorded by a unsteady hand using a one of those vhs cam
> recorders(?)...as such, instead of people just moving, you get the whole
> image canvas also moving becuase of the 'unsteady  hand' when recording.

Interesting point! I guess if the picture is moving around more than 
desired then maybe you're killing CPU cycles by having to use a wider 
motion search in the MPEG compression to achieve the same result. It'd 
be interesting to take a "shaky" video, software image stabilize it, and 
do an MPEG compression time/size comparison.

Ben



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