Advanced Properties

Not all of the following are available for all capture devices. It is recommended that you not change anything here unless you are having problems or you have specific reasons for doing so.

“Enable Still Picture Capture” Check Box

When this box is checked, you can capture still pictures to your disk in Bitmap format by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen. Some older cards may not work properly with this option enabled. In such a case you should uncheck the box.

Reset Button

Use this button to reset all parameters to default values.

Audio Capture Filter

Not much can be done here. You can choose which audio line to record from. But it is best done elsewhere (see Audio above).

Video Capture Filter

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Video Decoder. You can change the Vieo Standard to NTSC_M, NTSC_M_J, PAL_B or PAL_D, etc. The selection can also be achieved by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F.

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Video Proc Amp. The same options that are available on the Display page.

Video Capture Pin

Color Space Format. The color space format of recording and time shifting defaults to UYVY if your TV card supports it, or YUY2. If your card supports neither, then it will default to whatever your capture driver supports. Normally you should not have to change it, but if you do, this is the place for doing it. Normally you should try formats from the top of the list first, and work your way down the list (except that UYVY  and  YUY2 are preferable over RGB). Once you have found a format that works, you do not need to come back here anymore. Do not try to set video size or frame rate here, since the settings in your recording profile take precedence.

Video Preview Pin

Color Space format and video size for previewing. If this property page is available, you can use it to setup how you want your video displayed (instead of how it is recorded as in "Video Capture Pin" above). The default color space setting probably works the best. You can change video sizes here too. For Brooktree 848/878 based cards, do not choose a size higher than 640 x 240 (for NTSC format ). Choosing a display size 640 x 480, for example will result in video not being displayed.

Video Crossbar and Second Crossbar

Video Crossbar and Second Crossbar options are property pages, from the video capture driver, that allow a user to control how video and audio signals are routed (Line in versus TV audio, SVideo versus Composite or TV Tuner etc.). Select an output from the drop-down list, and see where the signal comes from the Input list. Change the input by selecting from the list.

TV Tuner

You can select channels, Video Standard, or Antenna/Cable. Perhaps a useful aspect of this is the selection of  "Tuning Mode" for devices that have the option (TV vs. FM Radio). MC does not provide a direct way of selecting FM radio at this time. You can use this property page to set your tuner to FM radio.

Deinterlacing

This is a plug-in from DScaler, for certain TV cards. It works particularly well for Brooktree based cards, but does not work for ATI ALL-IN-WONDER cards. It deinterlaces video signal. For more on deinterlacing, see http://www.dscaler.org/