I have been trying to do a screen capture of PVR software for a few weeks (for film collages). What I have concluded is that I have 2 options:
1) capture without hardware acceleration. The capture works great.
The problem with this is that the picture comes out slightly choppy and rigid. It doesn't look horrible it just looks off, particularly when there is a scene change in the film. During the scene change it will have a frame or two of random color. I have been running the software on a e6600 with 4GB pc8500 and a raptor, I have also run it on a p4 3.4Ghz 3GB PC6400. Both had almost the same results, so I don't think performance is an issue concerning this problem. I think that any computer without hardware acceleration is incapable of seamlessly playing something that is usually put through the graphics card using direct draw.
2) Capture with hardware acceleration. The fps on the capture register as perfect, and the DVD picture is as good as on TV.
The problem is it runs through on a video overlay and therefore the capture only captures the blank (black screen on the desktop). Not the images from the memory of the graphics card. I have not found any software solution (that I know of) that has the ability to capture from a video overlay.
My questions:
1) Is there anyway I could somehow get the DVD to play smoothly without hardware acceleration.
2) Does anyone know of any way or method to capture something from a video overlay?
3) Does any hardware exist to capture video overlay.
4) I heard vista no longer uses video overlay, is that true? Would that help my scenario? If so, I have a Vista license from my laptop when I downgraded to XP tablet. Is it possible to install vista on a partition on my main disk, If I already have it partitioned off. I have XP on a system disk in 20GB partition, 10GB for the pagefile and a remaining 200GB of a completely empty partition. Would it be possible to install vista on this partition while keeping my XP in tact?
Thanks, JOe K.
1) capture without hardware acceleration. The capture works great.
The problem with this is that the picture comes out slightly choppy and rigid. It doesn't look horrible it just looks off, particularly when there is a scene change in the film. During the scene change it will have a frame or two of random color. I have been running the software on a e6600 with 4GB pc8500 and a raptor, I have also run it on a p4 3.4Ghz 3GB PC6400. Both had almost the same results, so I don't think performance is an issue concerning this problem. I think that any computer without hardware acceleration is incapable of seamlessly playing something that is usually put through the graphics card using direct draw.
2) Capture with hardware acceleration. The fps on the capture register as perfect, and the DVD picture is as good as on TV.
The problem is it runs through on a video overlay and therefore the capture only captures the blank (black screen on the desktop). Not the images from the memory of the graphics card. I have not found any software solution (that I know of) that has the ability to capture from a video overlay.
My questions:
1) Is there anyway I could somehow get the DVD to play smoothly without hardware acceleration.
2) Does anyone know of any way or method to capture something from a video overlay?
3) Does any hardware exist to capture video overlay.
4) I heard vista no longer uses video overlay, is that true? Would that help my scenario? If so, I have a Vista license from my laptop when I downgraded to XP tablet. Is it possible to install vista on a partition on my main disk, If I already have it partitioned off. I have XP on a system disk in 20GB partition, 10GB for the pagefile and a remaining 200GB of a completely empty partition. Would it be possible to install vista on this partition while keeping my XP in tact?
Thanks, JOe K.
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