Techy help needed, please!

[strange_complex]

I can take screen-caps using the DVD player on my computer, but in order to do so, I have to disable something called 'hardware motion compensation'. This means that whenever I think "Ooh, must get a screen-cap of that!", the thought is almost always followed by "Ah, but I'd have to do that disabling thingy, wouldn't I? Gah, maybe I don't really need that screen-cap after all."

What I'd like to know, therefore, is how important hardware motion compensation actually is, and whether I could get away with just leaving it off all the time? Can anyone advise?

BTW, my computer is a desktop, and I never move it around anywhere. If that even has anything to do with hardware motion compensation...

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

My caps are stripe-free, so I think I'm OK on the interlacing front. Thanks, though.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're probably OK, but it depends upon the disk encoding, so you might find that some cause problems....most likely if you try captures from foreign disks, since different areas tend to use different encoding schemes - its not quite tied to regions but that would be a good indicator of a disk coming from elsewhere....I found a bunch of disks I picked up in Japan were encoded with different codecs, mostly leading me to have problems with sound rather than pictures, but the interlace coding on some of them was different.