HELP! needed with VCD's

Pigman

Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to make a VCD but I’m running into trouble. I’m using a hauppage wintv card with its capture software to make raw AVI footage and then compressing it down to MPEG using a downloadable program called TMPGEnc.

As things stand I’m having a couple of problems. Firstly is that the capture facility of the Wintv software isn’t very impressive and seems to miss frames, leading to a juttered image that isn’t satisfactory to watch. The second is that (as you can imagine) an AVI file for an hour long program (for example) is just massive in size and not really practical for an average home computer to store/edit etc.

So I was wondering if any of you guys knew of a way to capture video with the tv-card I have and convert it directly to MPG so that I won’t have to deal with huge unwieldy files and avoid the capture shortcomings of haupages software?

sceptre

Try

www.vcdhelp.com

Always good info there.

Saruman

get an mpeg encoder card.. then it will record as an mpeg!

Krusty_Clown

The TV cards can only capture poor quality video.
(Although I did use mine to capture video to DIVX4 AVI recently, and didn't lose a single frame). This was using the Win2K drivers( which included a video recording application). If you have the latest DivX codecs installed, you can captuire in this format.

If you have a DVD player in your PC, then you shouldn't use your Hauppage card at all. You can use a wide range of capturing applications, such as EasyDVD etc..

See Sceptre's link above...

Gaz

Get virtualdub .... Works great on a Hauphauge, and you can capture straight to Divx. But if you want to make a VCD (that will play in a DVD player) you have to capture to mpeg , which virtualdub also does !