Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-23 Thread Richard Ellis
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:11:24PM +0200, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo > > When you have only 2MHz of bandwith, you cannot have a chessboard > of white/black pixles and in each row 360 white annd 360 Black > pixles for PAL. The voltage level has to raise and fall. And with > 2MHZ of bandwit

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-22 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > > > If you're in a 625line (usually "PAL") video country then VHS has > > > 576 active (vertical) lines in 2 fields just like TV and DVDs. > > > > > > VHS does lack resolution though since it effectively only has 200 > > > or so horizontal lines. > > I still have not found any reliable res

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-22 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Steven & all, On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:27, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > You're comparing two different things, so it's not as easy as "is 2 > > smaller than 1"? VHS is interlaced, but only at half of the lines as > > your actual TV/cable display, i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-21 Thread Richard Ellis
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > Hallo > > > If you're in a 625line (usually "PAL") video country then VHS has > > 576 active (vertical) lines in 2 fields just like TV and DVDs. > > > > VHS does lack resolution though since it effectively only has 200 > > or

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-21 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > If you're in a 625line (usually "PAL") video country then VHS has > 576 active (vertical) lines in 2 fields just like TV and DVDs. > > VHS does lack resolution though since it effectively only has 200 or > so horizontal lines. I still have not found any re

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-20 Thread Martin Collins
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:39:12 +0800 Derek Fountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The HOWTO says that "-d 2 is already better than VHS video (a > *lot*!)." Does that mean that if I'm capturing from a VHS source I > will gain nothing from using -d 1, and should always use -d 2? Or > does it mean that

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-20 Thread Steven M. Schultz
Hi Ronald - On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > You're comparing two different things, so it's not as easy as "is 2 > smaller than 1"? VHS is interlaced, but only at half of the lines as > your actual TV/cable display, if I'm correct. Oops - I think you're confusing "VCD" with

Re: [Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-20 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Derek, On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 07:39, Derek Fountain wrote: > The HOWTO says that "-d 2 is already better than VHS video (a *lot*!)." Does > that mean that if I'm capturing from a VHS source I will gain nothing from > using -d 1, and should always use -d 2? Or does it mean that given a > theor

[Mjpeg-users] VCR capture

2004-09-19 Thread Derek Fountain
The HOWTO says that "-d 2 is already better than VHS video (a *lot*!)." Does that mean that if I'm capturing from a VHS source I will gain nothing from using -d 1, and should always use -d 2? Or does it mean that given a theoretically perfect source, capturing with -d2 and then playing back woul