RandomHajile said:
Hi there, first post but wanted to say that would it not be better if the capture from which ever LD player is made from the COMPOSITE video output...
and not the SVHS/S-Video output.
as in the video stored on laserdiscs is composite video.
and using the S-Video outputs are just the composite video being processed by the LD players late 80s/early 90s comb-filter tech...
so the best capture chain would be the composite video direct from the player (ideally modded with a true 75ohm BNC video connection) instead of capturing a processed S-Video output that will be processed again??
i have a 925 (and 909 and theta player) and as good as those S-Video outputs were, it all depended on if your TV had a weaker Composite video comb filter.
thanks tho for this thread as watching SW on laser ticks some boxes for old timers like myself :)
There are many other individuals here who are much more qualified to talk about this than I but I'll try to answer you the best I can based upon what I've learned over the past few years.
When doing a traditional laserdisc capture which involves using a video output from the player plugged into a capture card it entirely depends on the type of laserdisc player you have. If I was using an X0,X9, or R7G I would capture the s-video output because that probably is going to give better results than any capture card.
Anything less than these three players and I would use the composite output and plug it into the best capture card I could find and see what happens.
The other possibility is to use Happycube's software which basically uses a modified driver to turn some capture cards that use the Connexant cx23880 chip into a sort of software defined radio that can capture the entire rf signal directly from a test point and digitize it for later use.
He also has developed a software decoder which can take the digitized signal and decode everything entirely in the digital domain. It is currently a work in progress but already produces very good quality that rivals even the top players. This has the most potential for making the best laserdisc preservations imo because you can use basically any laserdisc player and achieve high quality results.