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I'm hoping I've solved the problem, but the skies getting cloudy and its getting late so I won't be able to test it out till conditions improve again over the next days, weeks, ???
For those who may be interested ... I've been racking my brains on this one a bit. I noticed some avi's I took of Jupiter late last year were ok when I opened them up in virtualdub today so I reckoned the problem is not with virtual dub. With this in mind I checked the IC Capture settings for the camera and went back and read over all the info that Mike (Iceman) posted on IIS re capturing and processing (thank Mike - much appreciated useful information) and noticed that I may have had the wrong codec selected on the camera. I've now changed it to the Y800 codec (I have no idea how this changed as I know I had this selected before - it possibly changed when I had trouble with the drivers in March this year and downloaded and installed updated drivers and IC capture software but didn't set it up right? Come to think of it my processing has been flattened / skewed since then. Looking at the user guide for the IC Capture settings I noticed the codec I had was maybe compressing the file on capture which may have resulted in the squashing of the image vertically when brought into virtualdub as an uncompressed image? My understanding is that the y800 codec is an uncompressed format so hopefully the x-y compression wont change now with future runs when I try again? I'm not an expert on this stuff and time will tell if i'm right. Thoughts from anyone in the know on this stuff would be appreciated.
Tony
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