What Cap Cards you using?

[DanielB11]

Hey there,
Just wondering what capture cards you lot at VideoPimp are using.
This is probably directed mostly to:
Serch, Rain, and Jeff1691

I have a Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe – not the most expensive card, but everything runs well. There’s only one thing though; in most videos (with much motion –especially with a predominant white colour/background) it seems to blur/smear the picture. It’s not the monitor - if it was, all my videos would be displayed with that blurred look.

I just really want to look at maybe upgrading to a better card, simply due to this slight irritation (- and your captured videos look fine). Otherwise it’s a very good, worthwhile card (for the price) if you ask me.

[Asspin]

Most people use ATI cards here. Personally I have an ATI 9600XT. Not sure what those three have though. Have you tried capping with different codecs or uncompressed AVI?

[DanielB11]

Yeah, but it still does not solve the issue - I have read somewhere else of the same issue with the WinFast.

I captured this video (Skin - Faithfulness) from the VCR to uncompressed avi. As you can see it is quite blurred on this frame, the white background helps emphasise the 'blur effect'.
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It may look bad, but not all videos come out so terribly. The video is well viewable, but it could be so much better without the smeared motion.

I did once try out some ATI card - but it was a graphics and video card in one, it used an AGP slot, and was probably quite dated-it didn't work too well, but that was also on an older system.

Here's another frame from "Feeder - Feeling A Moment" captured from S-VIDEO:
Feeder-FeelingAMoment.jpg
The frame does look bad, and I won't say it isn't, but it's not too horrible when watching the video, but once again, could be better. If this picture looks out of proportion, it's because I've encoded the video to SVCD (the resolution is 480*576 [-PAL], that's why it's not looking correct in the image).

[Asspin]

Yeah that blur isn't good. You might be able to pick up a ATI 8500 series or something for not a huge cost. Otherwise, I am not sure what to suggest. I assume you have already googled for a fix.

[Serch]

the bluring is caused by interlacing (and then when you're encoding or the software does it on "fly" it gets Deinterlaced - it's easiest/fastest to blur it) it gets blured. You can try using different software that will let you cap interlaced material so you could work on your footage with encoding programs that let you choose different Deinterlace filters.

[DanielB11]

It did cross my mind - but to be honest, I haven't really looked up much what interlacing is exactly.
On the box of my card, it says under "special features":
"De-interlacing
Make the best quality for fast-motion video.
No noise and flickers on the edges of motion objects."

Though i don't know if this is a feature of the card itself or just the software (WinFast PVR), but the same blur was visible in Intervideo's WinDVR 3.
If there is a simple solution to this, it would be great, 'cause I really think the card is perfect otherwise.