video capture on asus v7700 (whats the best setup?)

[cypher007]

i have a problem, dont we all , i have the following config:
athlon 1400mhz
256mb ddram
asus v7700 deluxe
Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus (DVD hardware card)
nvidia wdm 1.08
2x ibm 40gb drives (NTFS)
winXP professional
panasonic S-VHS video deck
PAL video region (UK)

all i want to do is capture to mpeg2 in high quality, without artifacts and without interlacing, and then play it back with my hardware dvd card.

1) Asus dvcr almost does the above but it saves interlaced footage and the quality is a little vcd at times.

2) power producer by cyberlink will save deinterlaced and the quality is ok but to get it to a high enough quality i loose speed, as this seems a very slow encoder.

so to sum up is there a way to do the above either by recording to a lossless file then encoding offline, or by realtime encoding using a software combination i havent tried yet. i havent alot of exprience creating scripts so preferably a gui based solution would be nice, i also have a copy of premier 6 available.

[techno]

tut tut tut....learn here:


BUY A HAUPPAGE WINTV GO PCI, they are cheap and high quality, DVD quality.


if u capture in MPEG2 using any card, u will lose quality, tons!!!!!!

because when u capture and compress at the same time, u lose quality.

when capturing, use these settings:

320*240
30fps
CD quality PCM audio
NO RECOMPRESSION
YU12/YV12

remember, the file size will be huge, so use something like AVI_IO which will capture over several files, or have NTFS partition

Then convert this avi to MPEG2 (or to DIVX)

Techno