Tv capture your dvd

[vic102482]

I dont know if anybody has tried this or not but I was fooling around and I hooked my tv capture card to my dvd player through the svideo output/input, lo and behold it worked, I was like okay well maybe it wont capture but it did I did mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 and since it was caputered as so there was no conversion needed. All I did was I burend to a blank DVD-r and put it in my dvd setop and that worked as well also.

The only problem is I want to fit a 2 hour 30 min dvd onto a dvd-r and I need to know if you lower the capture rate will it still work as a dvd. The standard data rate is 6 megs per I want to lower it to somthing like 5.5 or 5.75 I just dont want to waste any dvds.

Somebody help thanks!!!

[nicktran111467]

The following info is from Ulead website, about DVD-compliance

DVD - 'Digital Versatile Disc'
DVD is DVD-Video recorded on a DVD-R or DVD-RW disc, which contains superior quality video (MPEG-2) and audio. Typically, a DVD can hold more than one hour of video.

DVD Video Parameter Settings

Frame Size: 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL)
Frame Rate: 29.97 frames/second (NTSC) or 25 frames/second (PAL)
Video Data Rate: 4~8 Mbps CBR or VBR (Constant/Variable Bit Rate)
Audio Settings: Stereo, 48 kHz and 192~384 kbps MPEG audio
DVD Playback Options:
Stand-alone DVD players
Computer DVD drives with playback software

[vic102482]

yeah thanks man

I have 6-8 meg per sec variable sound is 48k at 384 and 29.97 capture witht he ntsc.