[mpeg2] Re: Recommended capture cards?

[Frank Rosengart <rosengart@convergence.de>]

Lawrence Gold wrote:


> 
> I'm trying to encode a video at SVCD bitrates (~2.6MBps); it has a lot of
> flashing/strobing, though, and there tends to be much pixellation.  My
> understanding of sampeg is that being scene-adaptive, it should be able to
> insert more I-frames in the difficult sections.  Can kfir do anything like
> this?  (I assume no, since it's a consumer board.)  The only way I've
> found to get rid of the pixellation so far is to boost the bitrate to 4 or
> 5MBps.  But this makes the videos a bit large...

what about blurring the picture before encoding? this makes the encoding 
much easier. Or reducing the picture size? Have you tried to tune some 
parameters in the KFir driver?


Frank