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<blockquote data-quote="Taipan" data-source="post: 34880" data-attributes="member: 11681">I haven't actually used or seen the results from a Hauppauge TV card, but it sounds like the video quality is noticable worse after it has been through the Composite input and the MPEG2 encoder on these cards, even at the highest available bit-rate (8-12 Mb/s).That surprises me, as Composite video is pretty ordinary anyway, but if there is a noticeable difference between the source Composite video signal and the resulting MPEG2 version, then it suggests that the MPEG2 encoding is not up to scratch.&nbsp; It is not too difficult to digitise and compress a Composite video signal so that there is no visible loss of quality - in fact, this processing chain could probably sharpen the image a little.&nbsp; If this was a Component/VGA source, or HDTV, then I would be more forgiving.&nbsp; But not when it is just ordinary old Composite.... :?As I said, I have not actually used, nor seen the results (apart from the image BigBuddha posted earlier in this thread) from a Hauppauge card, so I could be way off track .... and happy to be proved wrong!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taipan, post: 34880, member: 11681"] I haven't actually used or seen the results from a Hauppauge TV card, but it sounds like the video quality is noticable worse after it has been through the Composite input and the MPEG2 encoder on these cards, even at the highest available bit-rate (8-12 Mb/s). That surprises me, as Composite video is pretty ordinary anyway, but if there is a noticeable difference between the source Composite video signal and the resulting MPEG2 version, then it suggests that the MPEG2 encoding is not up to scratch. It is not too difficult to digitise and compress a Composite video signal so that there is no visible loss of quality - in fact, this processing chain could probably sharpen the image a little. If this was a Component/VGA source, or HDTV, then I would be more forgiving. But not when it is just ordinary old Composite.... :? As I said, I have not actually used, nor seen the results (apart from the image BigBuddha posted earlier in this thread) from a Hauppauge card, so I could be way off track .... and happy to be proved wrong! :D [/QUOTE]

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