Video Capture Resolutions

Anyone knows what is the video capture resolution from a FX5200 VTD128 ??
Thanks

it is depends on you video capture program but many of programs can capture up to 768*576 with 10000 buffer ( it is the resoloution of dvds)
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[GeForce4 MX] Video capture resolution for G4MX440-VTD8X ???

I would like to know some specs for my G4MX440-VTD8X card that I havent seen published anywhere online or in the manual. I'm planning to do some video capture with this card and I want to know what is the NATIVE capture resolution of the card's hardware. I understand that some software that can be used to capture the video allows selecting various capture resolutions for the MPEG2 format (ie 720x480). But I also read that it is always preferable to select the capture resolution that matches the capture device's native resolution.
Also, what is the best software to use for capturing video WITH THIS SPECIFIC graphics card product?

Thanks for the pointer to the list of TV standards. I have tried PAL-I, PAL-M, G, D, all flavors.
Here is what I have discovered so far:
I connected up my multistandard TV. I set up view for NTSC, the TV displays this ok, so next I changed to PAL format (tried all flavors). The TV could display the image but it was horribly unstable (flickering, vertically). So using Nview I selected screen 2, then 'change resolution' .. I noticed a couple of things ..
1. The resolution was fixed at 1024x768
2. The screen frequency was fixed at 60hz
Q1/ Does the resolution matter? How do I adjust if for the TV out port?
Q2/ Isn't PAL refresh rate supposed to be 50 hz? If so, how do I change this in Nview?
BTW my TV will accept:
Television system: B/G,I,D/K,M
Color system: PAL, PAL 60, SECAM, NTSC4.43, NTSC3.58
So, I am pretty confident that if my card is putting out a television compliant signal my TV will be able to display it ok.
Interesting to note that my TV will accept PAL 60. If that is PAL @ 60hz then perhaps this refresh rate (60hz according to Nview) is not the problem.
thanks,
Kevin

Video capture max resolution 1024x768?

Hi,
I have a Geforce3 MX460-VTP card, and in the box it says that the video capture resolution can go up to 1024x768, but when I try to capture, tha max resolution with all of the softwares I used is 720x480.
Does the card not deliver what it promisses, or do I have some sort of driver problem?
Althogh I think this is a common problem, I could not find anything similar on the forum archives.
Thanks.
Ricardo

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Originally posted by rmicai
Hi,
I have a Geforce3 MX460-VTP card, and in the box it says that the video capture resolution can go up to 1024x768, but when I try to capture, tha max resolution with all of the softwares I used is 720x480.
Does the card not deliver what it promisses, or do I have some sort of driver problem?
Althogh I think this is a common problem, I could not find anything similar on the forum archives.
Thanks.
Ricardo
Correction It´s a Geforce4 MX460-VTP

Changing Resolution of webcam video capture: The captfoss method.

Hello,
*'captfoss'* proposed a method to change the resolution of video captured using webcam in [this post|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10596731#10596731] . Then I posted a working example in the same thread which used the same method to change resolution to 640x480. Here in this post I just want to post the actual method which makes the resolution ( infact format) changing possible. This method takes the DataSource and the target Format as parameters and returns true/false on the success/failure of format change. The method is as follows:
public boolean requestCaptureFormat(Format requested_format, DataSource ds) {
 if (ds instanceof CaptureDevice) {
 FormatControl[] fcs = ((CaptureDevice) ds).getFormatControls();
 for (FormatControl fc : fcs) {
 Format[] formats = ((FormatControl) fc).getSupportedFormats();
 for (Format format : formats) {
 if (requested_format.matches(format)) {
 ((FormatControl) fc).setFormat(format);
 return true;
 return false;
 }To know the explanation of this method in depth, please click the link of the post. I believe it would not be difficult to understand once you have read that post. Here is the link of that post again:[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10596731#10596731].
Using that method, I have made a small utility which allows you to capture in all the supported formats (of webcam). That is meant for demonstration only and I am going to post it in next post (maybe next 2 posts if it exceeds character limit).
Any suggestions to improve the utility would be appreciated. I confess that it is not the best and requires improvements. But it serves its purpose, i.e. demonstration, successfully.
Enjoy!! :-)
Once again thanks to captfoss, I request him to post in this thread to take the 5 dukes I am going to assign to this topic ;)
Thanks!

Here is the code: (in two posts)
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.control.FormatControl;
import javax.media.protocol.*;
import javax.swing.*;
* @author captfoss & TBM
public class ChangeResolution extends JFrame implements ControllerListener {
 Player p;
 DataSource ds;
 JComboBox combo;
 JPanel vidPanel;
 public ChangeResolution() {
 super("Resolution Change, by captfoss and TBM");
 Manager.setHint(Manager.LIGHTWEIGHT_RENDERER, true);
 try {
 ds = Manager.createDataSource(new MediaLocator("vfw://0"));
 p = Manager.createPlayer(ds);
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 p.addControllerListener(this);
 p.realize();
 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 vidPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
 vidPanel.setBackground(new Color(250,230,250));
 private void populateCombo() {
 Vector<Format> allFormats = new Vector<Format>();
 if (ds instanceof CaptureDevice) {
 FormatControl[] fcs = ((CaptureDevice) ds).getFormatControls();
 for (FormatControl fc : fcs) {
 Format[] formats = ((FormatControl) fc).getSupportedFormats();
 for (Format format : formats) {
 allFormats.add(format);
 combo = new JComboBox(allFormats);
 combo.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 new Thread(new Runnable() {
 public void run() {
 vidPanel.removeAll();
 vidPanel.revalidate();
 JLabel lab=new JLabel("<html><center>Wait for a while... " +
 "Format Changing... " +
 "You are using a free open source 'Webcam Resolution Change utility', meant for " +
 "demonstration only, by:" +
 " captfoss and T.B.M " +
 "ENJOY!!</center></html>");
 lab.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
 vidPanel.add(lab,BorderLayout.CENTER);
 vidPanel.validate();
 p.stop();
 p.close();
 try {
 ds = Manager.createDataSource(new MediaLocator("vfw://0"));
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 requestCaptureFormat((Format) combo.getSelectedItem(), ds);
 p = null;
 try {
 p = Manager.createPlayer(ds);
 } catch (Exception ex) {
 ex.printStackTrace();
 p.addControllerListener(ChangeResolution.this);
 p.realize();
 }).start();
 }Continued in next post....

How can I get Hi8 video captured in NTSC Standard, to display as 4:3 when DVD is played on TV?

I have been capturing Hi8 tapes of our family, using a Sony analog-to-digital converter and Adobe Premier 10's NTSC Standard (4:3) preset. However, when I use Premiere Elements 10 to burn the digital files to DVDs and then play them on a Sony DVD player and Bravia flat-panel TV, the video is distorted in width automatically by the Wide Zoom mode. The TV cannot be configured to display the frames in the Normal Mode because the resolution is 720p, so the images cannot be viewed with the original 4:3 frame aspect ratio.
After much experimentation, I tried capturing a tape in the NTSC Wide (16:9) preset. When I started to burn the AVI file to a DVD, I got a warning that I was using the wrong format, and the choice to correct the format. I chose NO, and then burned the DVD. To my surprise, it did display on the TV without horizontal stretch, and the images did not appear to have been noticeably degraded.
I would very much appreciate knowing if there is some way for me to go back now and have Premiere Elements 10 somehow reformat all of the Hi8 tapes I captured using the NTSC Standard preset, so that I don't have to recapture them, but can simply reformat them and burn them to DVD's that can be displayed on the TV without being distorted?

Thanks for replying Steve. I've been using a Sony DVMC-DA2, an analog-to- digital media converter which I was advised is used by people converting media professionally. I've been using an S-Video cable to connect it to my Sony Hi8 video camera (Model CCD-TR101), which was considered to be a high-end camera, back in the day (1992). The converter is connected to my Windows 7 computer with an IEEE 1394, "FireWire" cable. I'm not sure how I would check the format into which the Hi8 video is being converted, but I've followed the Adobe Premiere 10 Video Tutorial and configured the capture preset to the NTSC Standard (4:3), which is the one recommended for DV cameras. I couldn't find any advice specifically explaining how to configure the preset when converting analog Hi8 to digital.
In the Premiere Elements 10 editing software itself, the video images burned on a DVD are not distorted, and the quality of the video images during editing looks to be every bit as good as the camera could record.
When I started showing the DVD's to my family, however, I was very disappointed to discover that everything looked stretched in the horizontal direction. I have since studied the configuring of frame aspect ratio modes (Normal, Zoom, Wide Zoom and Full) described in the Sony Bravia TV's instruction manual, in detail. And, I have tried every conceivable combination of the picture and frame settings to see if I could "unstretch' the video images. No, luck. It was then that I came across a footnote that indicated that the Normal mode was not available for video resolutions of 720p, 1080 and higher. Unfortunately, the NTSC Standard preset indicates that it does capture DV in images that have 720 horizontal pixels by 480 vertical pixels.
When I view the Hi8 burned to DVD's on other computers, using Windows Media Player and Video Lan, they are not distorted. In fact, they look so good that I'm just about ready to dedicate my laptop as the DVD player for my TV set! It was while contemplating whether there might be a way to avoid doing this, that it occured to me to try capturing some Hi8 tape using the NTSC Wide Screen preset option. My half-formed idea was that, since the ratio of pixel width to pixel height in the Standard preset was smaller than with the Widescreen preset, using the latter to capture an analog video image might either (1) expand the width of the overall image much farther, and cause grotesque distortion, or (2) squash the width of the overall image, so that it looked normal. I can't pretend to have known what I was doing, since I don't understand video recording technology, but it also occured to me that the Widescreen preset might degrade the resolution, so that it was somehow no longer 720p, and thereby possibly circumvent the Sony lockout of the Normal Mode for these DVD's. Whatever it did, capturing Hi8 video with the NTSC Widescreen preset did, indeed, reduce the width of the frames appearing on the TV Screen, so that they apperared normal.
The question with which I'm now wrestling is whether to go back and re-capture all of the Hi8 tapes, with the NTSC Widescreen preset, that I had already captured with the NTSC Standard preset - a big job. The warning window that popped-up when I prepared to burn the test video captured with the Widescreen preset gave me the option of correcting my "mistaken" choice of capture preset. I declined, and was rewarded with an undistorted video image. Which raises the possibility that, somewhere in Premiere Elements 10, there may be the capability of invoking that same pop-up window and modifying what the software considers to be the "correct," Standard preset to the Widescreen preset,so that I can change the formatting for all of the HI8 tapes I've already captured, so that they can be burned to DVD's and viewed in their proper frame aspect ration.
This has been a long-winded follow-up to your initial answer to my question, but I would very much appreciate any further suggestions.
Many thanks. Paul

Video Capture on recent Windows 8.1 Tablets shows very dark video

Hello,
I switched from direct show to media foundation to capture video from webcams. It is a desktop application and works well with both direct show and media foundation on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 desktop computers for a lot of different webcams.
Trying the same application on a Windows 8.1 Atom based tablet, the video is very dark and green.
I tried it on the following tablets (all of them show the above described behavior):
-Acer T100A (camera sensor MT9M114, Atom 3740)
-Dell Venue Pro 11 (camera sensor OV2722 front, IMX175 back - Atom 3770)
-HP Omni 10 5600 (camera sensor OV2722, IMX175 - Atom 3770)
I capture using IMFMediaSession, building a simple topology with a media source and the EVR.
TopoEdit shows the same strange behavior
MFTrace does not show any errors (at least I do not see any errors)
In case an external usb camera is used on all these tablets, the video is fine.
The SDK Sample MFCapture3d3 works fine, it uses the source reader for capturing - I verified the media type of the source used there, it is the same I use in my application (same
stream descriptor, same media type, verified with mftrace)
The "CaptureEngine" video capture sample from the SDK also works as expected, however, I need Windows 7 compatibility and would like to use the same source on both platforms
When using direct show, all the above mentioned tablets show only a fraction of the sensor image when capturing with lower resolutions (e.g. 640x360), the colors of the video are
fine. I tried it with the desktop app of Skype and GraphEdit, same behavior (only a fraction of the video is shown, colors are fine) - Skype for destkop apparently uses a DirectShow source filter.
Has anyone tried capturing the camera of an Atom z3700 series tablet with media foundation using the media session? If so, is special handling of the media source required on these tablets?
If required, I will post some code or mftrace logs.
Thanks a lot,
Karl
Bluemlinger

On the contrary of my previous post, the MFTrace file shows an error:
"COle32ExportDetours::CoCreateInstance @ Failed to create {FEB9695C-C7DF-4D40-8019-00FA047288FF} KSPlugin Class (C:\Windows\system32\IntelCameraPlugin.dll) hr=0x80004005 E_FAIL"
This dll contains the Intel Camera MFT. While it is on the specified location, it cannot be loaded. According to the Windows Driver Kit documentation, a camera MFT is used in windows store device app.
My assumption is that this MFT is responsible for doing post processing of the video stream from the camera. Since it cannot be loaded, the video stream is dark with a green color fault.
By the way, setting brightness or exposure via IAMVideoProcAmp and IAMCameraControl has no effect, Setting/reading these properties returns S_OK, the properties are stored correctly but obviously ignored.
Bluemlinger

Black video window trying to share video from elgato video capture connected to a sony pmw-ex3 camer

Hi,
Im trying to share video on adobe connect with "elgato video capture" usb plug in capture card, connected with a sony pmw-ex3 professional camera on a Lenovo windows 8 laptop, but the video window appears on black.
I have tried to change the resolution from low to high on the program, but it doesnt works. i´ve tried to change from panoramic to normal view size, and still dont work.
If i use the "elgato video capture" software from elgato web, the card works fine and capture video from the sony camera.
What should i do?It could be caused by screen resolution?
P.S: I have tried on a windows 7 asus laptop and it works fine.

You may need to use DVdriver along with your desired USB device. It allows your computer to see the video input as a 'webcam' and thus allows Connect to see it. Free to try, $20 to buy.
DVdriver: DV Camcorder to WebCam Converter Software by Eagletron 2014-05-27

Problem in video capture at server and fetching by client

hi
I am doing final year project it has server at one end which is connected to video capturing device-webcam in my case
and the client is mobile.
I want the live video captured be transmitted to the mobile client on fetch video request.
I have tried implementing it but facing some problems so would like to know the reason behing and also ask if the way i am following is correct or not
At server end i tried to extract frame as follows:
//the datasource handler class is as follows
      * Inner class MyDSHandler takes the Output DataSource form the
      * Processor and extracts the frame from it.
      * It implements the BufferTransferHandler so that it can receive
      * Buffer from the PushBufferStream.
     public class MyDSHandler implements BufferTransferHandler
          DataSource source;
          PullBufferStream pullStrms[] = null;
          PushBufferStream pushStrms[] = null;
          //Buffer readBuffer = null;
          int i = 1, j = 1;
          * Sets the media source this MediaHandler should use to obtain content.
          * @param source the DataSource from the Processor
          private void setSource(DataSource source) throws IncompatibleSourceException
               // Different types of DataSources need to handled differently.
               if(source instanceof PushBufferDataSource)
                    pushStrms = ((PushBufferDataSource) source).getStreams();
                    // Set the transfer handler to receive pushed data from the push DataSource.
                    //pushStrms[0] since we need to handle only the video stream
                    pushStrms[0].setTransferHandler(this);
               else if(source instanceof PullBufferDataSource)
                    System.out.println("PullBufferDataSource!");
                    // This handler only handles push buffer datasource.
                    throw new IncompatibleSourceException();
               this.source = source;
               readBuffer = new Buffer();
          * This will get called when there's data pushed from the PushBufferDataSource.
          * @param stream the PushBufferStream obtained from the DataSource
          public void transferData(PushBufferStream stream)
               try
                    stream.read(readBuffer);
               catch(Exception e)
                    System.out.println(e);
                    return;
               if((readBuffer == null) || (readBuffer.getLength() == 0))
                    System.out.println("Null or Empty buffer encountered..");
                    return;
               // Just in case contents of data object changed by some other thread
               Buffer inBuffer = (Buffer)(readBuffer.clone());
               // Check for end of stream
               if(readBuffer.isEOM())
                    System.out.println("End of stream");
                    return;
                * we can apply frame control here by deciding whether to process
                * the frame or not
               processBuffer2(inBuffer);
          public void start()
               try{source.start();}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
          public void stop()
               try{source.stop();}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
          public void close(){stop();}
          public Object[] getControls()
               return new Object[0];
          public Object getControl(String name)
               return null;
           * Processes the Buffer , i.e converts it into an image and
           * transfer its content via Socket
           * @param inBuffer the buffer received from the PushBufferStream
          public void processBuffer2(Buffer inBuffer)
          {         //extracting frame from video and writing image on stream
               //RGBFormat format = (RGBFormat)inBuffer.getFormat();
               System.out.println(inBuffer.getLength());
               YUVFormat format = (YUVFormat)inBuffer.getFormat();
               Image img = (new BufferToImage(format)).createImage(inBuffer);
               BufferedImage bimg = (BufferedImage)img;
               if(bimg != null)
                    try
                          * encodes the image in the JPEG format and writes it to
                          * the socket
                         ImageIO.write(bimg, "jpg", clientOut);
                         System.out.println("Data Written to stream");
                         logArea.append("\n Image Data Written to Stream");
                    catch(Exception e)
                         System.out.println(e);
     }and how can one control the frame rate of the video like if i require the speed of 7 frames per second and the resolution
also
i am trying to convert the frame fetched to jpeg and at client , tried making use of jpeg image property by detecting the img start and end by reading the image data in bytes from the inputstream (0xffd8 as strt of image and 0xffd9 as end)
byte[] img_data = new byte[4*1024];//buffer to read and hold one image info
try
                while((data = dis.read()) != -1)
                    //System.out.print(Integer.toHexString(data));
                    if(data == 0xFF)
                        fm = true;
                    else if(fm)
                        if(data == 0xD8)
                            //start of the image
                            System.out.print("Start of image found : ");
                            //ctr should be zero at this stage here
                            //writing to byte[]
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
                            ctr++;
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xD8;
                            ctr++;
                        else if(data == 0xD9)
                            //end of image
                            //writing to byte[]
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
                            ctr++;
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xD9;
                            ctr++;
                            // consrtucting image from the byte[]
                            img = Image.createImage(img_data, 0, ctr-1);
                            if(img != null)
                                repaint();
                                System.out.println("Image drawn");
                            else
                                System.out.println("Image is null");
                                /*try
                                    Thread.sleep(500);
                                catch(Exception e)
                            ctr = 0; // ctr back to zero for the new image
                            //break;
                        else
                            //writing to byte[]
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
                            ctr++;
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)data;
                            ctr++;
                        fm = false;
            catch(Exception e){}
    }The problem i am facing is the client gets the black image just for a fraction of second and then the application hangs and no video is visible.
I have very little time left to complete this project as deadline is very close
please would be very grateful if guided timely.

equator07 wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
i saw in recent posts some protocols had been made use of like rtp i am not making use of any of these
will it effect?I can see that you're not using RTP... and "will it effect?" doesn't make any sense AT ALL...
is the way i have made use of jmf correct?There's no correct way to use an API... but no, you're not doing things in even remotely a "tradional" way...
*like the way i am extracting the frame,
and how can i set the resolution of the video taken by cam and adjust the frame rate?*I have no idea if your code works. I assume that you would have tested it, and proved it to either be producing a valid JPEG image or not. If you've not done that testing, then you obviously need to.
because i want live video to be seen at client end i am seriously confused and the progress as just come to an hault at this point and am in real need of guidance.You should probably be using RTP and the tradional way of using JMF then...
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10930286#10930286]
Read through all of the links I gave the person on the above thread and you'll be on a lot better footing as far as using JMF goes.
shall i send the server side code.Till now server and client are both on local host.No, I don't need to see any more of your code. I'm not a proof reader, and I'm not going to debug it for you. Do you own work.

N81 VGA video capture

Hi,
I`m having some problems with my Nokia n81.
I can`t capture a VGA video/640x480px/, is it a firmware issue or just a setting? My phone is set to Video Quality-High, but it still captures a clip with resolution 320x240px.
In the following specification provided by Nokia/In the official UK site http://nokia.co.uk / is said that this device can support this resolution.The specifications: http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4515023
Is it a firmware issue or just a setting?
Imaging
Up to 2 megapixel (1600x1200 pixels) camera, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 15fps
Zoom: digital up to 20x
Front camera (CIF).....
My phone is running v 20.0.056 /15-05-08/ with 8GB mSDHC card.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Message Edited by kele6 on 10-Nov-2008 06:08 PM

I tried using my secondary /front/ camera and video clip captured by it was with resolution 178x144px. I also checked the setting and found nothing. I made up some screeshots. Link: http://bulgaria.net.in/nokia/ . I`m starting to think that nokia forgot to activate this feature in their firmware. In Screenshot0002 there are five levels but only 3 of them are active. Is this scenario possible?

Hp media center pc m1095c conexant 23880 video capture (blackbird ntsc dual-input)

Conexant 23880 Video Capture (Blackbird NTSC Dual-Input) driver for windows 7 32bit

It appears that no driver past XP has been released for this device. Please read this Microsoft Community Forum thread on this subject for a possible resolution to your issue. Also note that the Microsoft Update Catalog only lists driver for Windows XP.
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Power Mac Video Capture card for G5 Quad

Can anyone direct me to where I can get a video capture card for my Power Mac G5 Quad.
I would like to directly connect my DVD player to my G5.
Can I do this and what do I need and where can I get it. Thank you for your guidance!

Canto makes a nice firewire video digitizer for under $ 200 that will handle full (non-HD) resolution video. If you already have a mini-dv camera or can find a used one cheap (maybe one where the tape transport is bad) you can connect the camera to your G5 via Firewire, and then use the camera's auxiliary video and audio inputs to connect the source you want to digitize.

Video capture card for Arch Linux

Hi all,
I'm wanting to do some home video stuff with cinerella etc. But i am not sure what video capture cards are going to work at the right resolutions and fps etc.
I want to record from a video input not tv tuner and i want to be able to to get a tv / film quality.
I am not worried about outputting video as my GFX card can do that and also i will burn to dvd.
Have any of you guys got any suggestions for me please , of makes / models that will work fine with the great ARCH ?
Cheers
Justin Smithies

I bought the cheapest Hauppauge 150 card I could find, and it's worked well with every linux box I've stuck it in, Arch included. Most Hauppauge cards have a combo of inputs, including rca, svideo, and coax. I'm not sure what you mean by
I want to record from a video input not tv tuner and i want to be able to to get a tv / film quality.
but you should be able to record anything you can send through the card. If you mean you want hdtv quality, then I'm no help - I looked at those options, but decided that 720x480 was going to be fine for 99% of my use. There is a ton of info at the myth site and the ivtv site, as well as the knoppmyth site.
http://www.mythtv.org/
http://ivtvdriver.org/
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html

Video Capture Card for Adobe Connect

Does anyone have any recommendations for a video capture card for the Mac to use with Adobe Connect? I have a HD camera that I want to connect to my Mac through the S video connection on the camera. I need a video capture card that will work with Adobe Connect.

The Video Telephony Pod is the video pod when Video Telephony Conferencing equipment/cameras are configured to talk with Adobe Connect. This was introduced in Connect 8.1 for SIP and H.264 based VTC systems. It will only work with H.264 video streams from the VTC type cameras found in conference rooms. Usually the major players in the U.S. are Polycom and Tandberg.
The VTC Pod appears as a standard pod once the administrator of an Adobe Connect on-premise server has configured the various admin screens and added the SIP addesees to the configuration xml file.
The video quality is different than the webcam video as here is a table:
Tandberg 990:
Profile Level At FMG End
Video Out At Device
High
1200.0kbps 448p
Medium
600.0 kbps   448p
Low
250kbps       CIF
Tandberg Edge 95 MXP:
Profile Level At FMG End
Video Out At Device
High
1700 kbps w720p
Medium
600kbps    w448p
Low
250kbps    w288p
More information on formats:
768 x 448@30fps (w448p)
576 x 448@30fps (448p)
512 x 288@30fps (w288p)
352 x 288@30fps (CIF)
176 x 144@30fps (QCIF)
So, that HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW refer to the Adobe Connect room preference setting for video. Notice that HIGH shows we can deliver 720p resolution.
The normal webcam video pod is locked to 480p (VGA) 4x3 resolution at 20 frames per second but the server admin on an on-premise install can alter a configuration xml file to go 24 fps but not higher than VGA on the webcam pod.
Probably more than you ever imagined I would share but that's my style.
Take care.

WebcamPublisher Capture Resolution

How do I set the capture resolution for the WebcamPublisher (or the camera if that's what I should be looking at). I have my three way video conf. test code up and running but the capture resolution looks like it's very low. I follwed the trail on the captureWidthHeightFactor setting but that didn't really lead anywhere. I've read through the docs on compression quality and bandwidth, but I don't think that's my issue it just looks like there's a really low capture resolution.
If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.
Thank you,
Eric

Hi Eric,
Thanks for bringing up this issue.
We agree that out description of captureWidthAndHeightFactor is not upto mark and it should have provided more insight.
I investigated through it and at this point, if you need to have a higher resolution, just set the captureWidthAndHeightFactor to a higher value, let's say 5. It can take values from 1-10 and you will see significant difference in with higher values. Though we don't allow setting of native width and height, but setting the captureWidthAndHeightFactor( you can call it as resolution factor) will do the trick for you.
We provide three types of aspect ratios (values in StreamManager class width base native width and height values) and then we multiply the values (width and height) with this factor while setting the mode of camera. In near future, we will have a better API like setResolutionFactor and make it more self-explanatory and might deprecate this API.
Here is an example of test code to set the captureWidthandheightFactor.
<rtc:AdobeHSAuthenticator id="auth" userName="[email protected]" password="hiruana80" />
 <rtc:ConnectSessionContainer id="cSession" authenticator="" width="100%" height="100%" roomURL="http://connectnow.acrobat.com/cocomobasu/myfifthroom" >
 <mx:HBox width="100%" height="100%">
 <mx:VBox width="100%" height="100%" >
 <rtc:WebcamPublisher id="webcamPub" captureWidthHeightFactor="5"/>
 <rtc:WebcamSubscriber width="100%" height="100%" webcamPublisher="" />
 <mx:Button label="Start" click="webcamPub.publish()"/>
 </mx:VBox>
 </mx:HBox>
 </rtc:ConnectSessionContainer>
Hope this helps. Let us know if it works ok with you.
Thanks
Hironmay Basu

Anyone using Elgato Video Capture with good results?

I've got some VHS tapes that I want to edit in iMovie '11 (and/or FCE).
Viewed on a TV monitor, the image quality of the tapes varies from acceptable to very good - but I am very disappointed with the quality of the video once imported, using Elgato Video Capture, to my MBP. It is very indistinct and washed out. Only the audio remains as clear as the original.
Anyone had any success with using Video Capture to convert old tapes?
Any advice and/or feedback would be much appreciated!

conran wrote:
Thanks Coolmax - I tried that, but no discernible improvement unfortunately.
These are the tech specs from the Elgato site:
Video resolution: 640×480 (4:3) or 640×360 (16:9)
Video format: H.264 at 1.4 MBit/sec or MPEG-4 at 2.4 MBit/sec
Audio: AAC, 48kHZ, 128 kBit/sec
I've tried both H.264 and MPEG-4 without much success. The resulting footage is always extremely grainy and 'muddy'. Any other ideas?
If I understand this correctly, Elgato can save your footage either in H.264 or MPEG-4 and you tried both. If the original file plays with ok quality and the resulting footage after being finalized by iMovie 11 look worse, I think we need to determine what are you finalizing to?
In "Export to Quicktime", you can choose the compressor to "none". Do this with a short clip as the resulting file will be big. Play back this video.
If there is a degradation in video, then you know it is iMovie 11 process that is causing it. From here on, you can further compress the video using Handbrake and adjust the settings to give best quality vs size.
There are software available on the PC side that can enhance and resize an already weak VHS captured footage and make it look better before you import it into iMovie 11. But this require quite a bit of computer horsepower to complete it in any acceptable time frame.

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