[MPlayer-users] mencoder video card recommendation

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Jack wrote:
> Andrew J. Yeckel wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:00:42PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0000, Martin Collins wrote:
> >>   
> >>
> >>Well raw uncompressed capture is much better unless you have a slow
> >>cpu. If you want to encode to something of reasonable size in
> >>realtime, having DV to start with is a liability since you have to
> >>spend cpu time decoding too before you can encode it.
> >>   
> >>
> Agreed.  Capture raw from the card and encode it in software.  Cards 
> based on the bt8x8 chips are plentiful, cheap, and well supported in 
> linux.  Some people complain about them putting noise in the picture 
> though.  I don't see that at all on mine (which has a 878A), but there 
> are a metric asston of people making these cards, and I am perfectly 
> willing to believe that most of them suck.
> 
> >>Also, NTSC DV is absolutely horrible unacceptable quality (4:1:1
> >>sampling). So do NOT use a DV-based capture card if you'll be
> >>capturing any NTSC content.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I am capturing NTSC.
> >I'm
> >looking for an answer of the form "use X" not of the form "don't use Y". 
> >Over time on this list, I've seen lots of "Don't use NTSC/DV", but
> >nothing of the form "Use X instead". 
> > 
> >
> I would recommend grabbing raw, and encoding to HuffYUV in realtime.  
> Anime fansubbers swear by it because it's pretty much lossless.  In my 

Pretty much? WTF? Something's either lossless or it's not. Huffyuv is
lossless of course.

Rich