Re: Poor quality video playback

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Linus wrote:
--Have just made my first attempt to save some old VHS Tapes to my
hard drive using ATI TV Wonder 200 tuner for a capture device. Never
was able to make the program that came with the tuner work (Catalyst
Media Center) so am using the Windows Movie Maker that comes with XP
Pro..

Movies down load Ok and look pretty good on the small window monitor,
but when I play them back full screen (From the hard drive) on
Windows Media Player they look horrible, with oversize pixels like a
small photo that has been enlarged to much.

These old tapes display just fine on my 25" analog TV and I am
playing them on the camcorder that they were originally recorded on,
so I know I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.

Settings are: WMV. 30 Frames Per second. Bit rate 512 kbs. Display
Size 320 x 240.

System is a new build, Win. XP Pro with all the upgrades, Core 2 Duo
X6800 with 2GB RAM & a pair of WD 250GB hard drives. Every thing else
working just fine. I never fooled with movies before and don't have a
clue as to what my problem is. Any advice will be appreciated.

Linusverl
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Can the 320x240 setting be changed
to something larger?


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