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I also included an optional 4th file that shows the composite input quality of the generic 148, from a football game on tv, encoded realitime with your h264 18mbps valid quality test settings. For my money, the ezcap still has better picture quality. The rocket is set to it's highest quality settings and the ezcap is set to it's lowest. MJPEG is much lighter on the cpu and produces a much better picture quality at these bitrates. The ezcap can produce much better quality files at this bitrate by using a different codec. I think most people would say that the ezcap file looks a little better. For example, when it cuts to the young man on the bench, the rocket file has his face very pixelated, but the ezcap file looks more like a human face. Both the files look poor to me, but I slightly prefer the ezcap to the rocket. The ezcap file is very slightly bigger because mostly because the audio is not compressed. I tried to include a portion that had motion (the car scene) and faces at a close, medium, and far distance.
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It is Creative Commons license Share Alike. I captured a 5 minute clip from a feature film called Valkamma. In my opinion, this isn't as good of a test as the MJPEG one, because encoding with h264 in realtime, I had to use all the lowest quality settings (ultrafast baseline 3.0) just to get it not lag. I will concede that the audio might be a little better on the hauppage, I can't tell much of a difference. But I have a 5 year old laptop with a processor 1/5th the power of modern day intel core i5 etc processors, so I could not encode the audio in realtime. I went ahead and did your "valid quality test" and set the ezcap 148 settings as similar to the rocket as possible. It cannot record higher than the h264 baseline profile. The Hauppage can do 18mbps on the max setting, but it only captures VBR so it varies a little based on the source file, but is always close to 18 (16-19mbps) on the max setting, which is labeled 18mbps. A couple things you mentioned should be corrected a little bit.
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A valid quality test would be to use your EzCrap 148 and H.264 software compression in real time with similar settings to those normally being used by the Rocket.but you aren't interested in performing a valid quality test, only a test that makes the product you are trying to sell look better. You are only doing a quality test against the Rocket because your intent was to create a skewed result for the purpose of deceiving the public.Ī valid quality test would be a comparison between your EzCrap 148 and another device that could employ the same kind of MJPEG compression. Only a moron, or you apparently, would buy the Rocket intending to capture SD video using a H.264 baseline profile at 18 mbps average bitrate or constant bitrate. They almost certainly want to use High Profile, not Baseline Profile, and they would probably not try to use 18 mbps average VBR or CBR unless they were recording HD video. People buy something like the Rocket that does H.264 hardware compression precisely because they want to use H.264 for smaller file sizes, and don't want to re-encode. Second, the Rocket isn't designed to do lossless H.264 encoding, which would be equivalent to lossless MJPEG. If the Colossus is any example it won't let you do that.
Alot of the color problems mentioned earlier have been fixed First you aren't capturing SD video at 18 mbps using the Rocket. There is a big difference between the EZcap 148 type devices than the dc60 type. If I have time, I will do a second reincode test. H264 especially is not considered an intermediate codec, so I would imagine there would be more quality loss on the second encode. If you reencode either, the result is not very good, so with either, it is best to keep the original file. Recording below that with either does not give good enough quality for me. With the h264 box, the max bitrate is 18mbps. When I use MJPEG, the video bitrate is about 18mbps. I'm not sure I understand the file size argument. Side note: Kingeda makes an lgp lite clone as well called the kingeda usb01 that is available on ebay for $90: If they had just branded it as an ezcap, I would have definitely bought it: Basically ezcap hdmi version, it's called HD Video Grabber (Kingeda usb101?). I can honestly say I've never seen anything like this. Last but not least is the very unique device in the next link.
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Like the magewell, it will is compatible with usb 2.0 by lowering the resolution, or will be full resolution with usb 3.0.
Kingeda also makes a magewell hdmi dongle clone called the kingeda usb100hdmi. I must admit I am partial to ezcap, so don't know if I'll get this one, but here's the order site: For anyone who is interested, the avermedia clone is called the kingeda usb02. Got it squallmx, when the ezcap 280 comes in, I will upload to youtube so you can see it.