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Sunday, July 29, 2001
Okey dokey everybody, I've got some nice updates for
you. The big news is that I've created some slick new VirtualDub capture
guides. Hooray! These guys are loaded with everything you've ever
wanted to know about capturing video with VirtualDub. Therefore, be sure
to check out Low Resolution Video Capture with
VirtualDub
and High Resolution Video Capture with
VirtualDub.
In honor of the event, I've also revised a number of other
pages. The revised pages include the Video
Capture Overview, Low Resolution Video
Capture with AVI_IO, High Resolution Video
Capture with AVI_IO, Low Resolution Video
Processing, High Resolution Video Processing,
Hardware, and the Special
Thanks page.
If I can stand any more writing, there may be a few more
updates in the future. I also apologize to the people who I've been
ignoring because I've been busy. (You know who you are.) If I
promised you anything, I'll try to get it done as soon as I can.
Saturday, July 28, 2001
Here's some good news for those of us who use a WinTV capture
card. Hauppauge has updated the VFW drivers for both Windows 9x and
Window NT/2000. Furthermore, they have made a new version of the WDM
drivers and updated their WinTV2000 application. Although the WDM
drivers aren't too useful at the moment, they may become important as
everything slowly switches from VFW to WDM. You can get the updates from
Hauppauge's
WinTV software page.
Saturday, July 21, 2001
I've written a new article, entitled Data
Rates and File Sizes. (It's called "Rates and Sizes" in the FAQ
section.) This page describes how to use data rates to calculate the
hard drive space you'll need to store a video. It also includes some
tables of compression ratios for Huffyuv and PICVideo MJPEG, which may be
useful to even experienced readers. Now that I've made this page, I
don't expect to hear any more questions like "Luke, how much hard drive
space will I need to capture my video?!?". If I do get such a
question, you may find yourself able to brag to your friends about how you
were punched out by Luke of Luke's Video Guide. :-)
If everyone is really nice and I have the time, there may be
more updates in the (somewhat) near future.
Thursday, July 19, 2001
VirtualDub
1.4.5 was just released. It includes a number of new features and
bug fixes, so I recommend updating to the new version. To reflect some
of the changes, I updated both Video Processing pages.
And just so everyone knows, I have a few new pages planned
that I think many people will find useful. I've completed the testing
portion, so all I have to do is write everything down (when I get the chance).
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
The VDR portion of the AVS/VDR VFAPI plug-in (ReadAVS) doesn't
appear to function correctly, at least under Windows 2000. I've updated
the Frameserving article to reflect
this. As a workaround, I recommend frameserving from VDR to AVS (using
the AVISource input filter) to VFAPI.
Friday, July 6, 2001
Wow, I'm a little slow! I just remembered that the
AVS/VDR plug-in for TMPGEnc (which I mention in certain forums almost every
day) is actually a VFAPI plug-in. This means that you can use it to
directly open AVS scripts and frameserved VDR files in VFAPI, which simplifies
things quite a bit. Therefore, I've added the AVS/VDR VFAPI plug-in to
the Software page and updated the Frameserving
and Windows Media 8 Encoding guides with the
new information.
Thursday, July 5, 2001
I added a couple sections to the Interlacing
article that describe field dominance and when you should deinterlace (in
general).
As always, I've been extremely busy, but I do have a couple
ideas for new articles on the site. I'll try to work on them when I find
a free moment, so maybe you'll see some updates in the (relatively) near
future.
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