Capturing video - Could do with a volunteer or two....

[devilman]

I bought myself a new TV Capture card to take screenshots/capture video from my consoles and while it captures them both pretty well, I'm now trying to find the best setting to compress the video so that it's quick(ish) to download without losing too much sound/video quality.

I've created a test file of me playing one of my favourite songs, Evil Eye, on Guitar Freaks (I'm not particularly good at the game so don't expect an 'S' rank!). The original file was 17mb and the compressed version came out at about 2.5mb. Now it looks fine on my PC but then I might just have the right codecs for it - I could do with one or two other people downloading it just to make sure it plays ok before I go creating any more videos!

For those that do download it, can you post any issues with the graphics/sound you come across? :)

Anyway, click here (http://www.webmad.co.uk/features/downloads/guitar.avi) for the file (You might want to right-click and 'Save Target As' if you want to keep a copy.

Thanks!

[GaijinPunch]

I've found that DivX is the best. Great video, lots of control for the user, and I think Windows even installs with it now. If not, it's easily installable, and anyone that plays games probably knows what it is.

MP3 audio is definitely the way to go as well.

To put it all together, use the best video tool out there -- Virtual Dub

All the videos at my site were done so (except the crappy ASF ones, in which I had no choice)

[WiseSalesman]

using windows media player, windows xp home edition. Video cut out about 5 seconds in, but i still had full audio. i have all the updated divx codecs.

[devilman]

To put it all together, use the best video tool out there -- Virtual Dub


That's what I'm using, but most of it makes little sense to me. :D Guess it's a case of finding the right balance. It took me a while to get the compression setting tweaked to actually bring the filesize DOWN and not UP! oops!

[Flack]

The disadvantage to DiVX is that people have to manually install it. So if you're putting up videos of your kid for grandma to see, chances are you'll be talking grandma thru installing DivX drivers.

The advantage is A, it has really good quality, and B, it's cross-platform. I used to do videos in WMV, but believe me you'll hear it from every Linux user how they can't see it (or at least I used to -- there may be a solution now).