Help capturing TV to burn DVDs

[mayor]

Hi,

I am new to this forum. If I have posted in the wrong place, feel free to move the thread.

I am attempting to capture movies off TV to burn to DVD. However, my system seems to be having a difficult time with the capture, dropping plenty of frames along the way.

I've got an Aver TV plus capture board which displays TV perfectly at any resolution.

The rest of my system:

Pentium 4, 1.8 Ghz
768 MB Ram
160 GB Hard drive
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200
Pioneer DVR-103

When I capture the video at standard DV - 720 x 480, it just doesn't do the trick.

I have attempted to capture and then edit using the Aver TV Studio software, as well as Vegas Video and Adobe Premiere.

Is there a setting on the hard drive that would cause it to run better? I know this configuration is powerful enough, but I am missing something. Please help!

Joel

[setarip]

"I've got an Aver TV plus capture board which displays TV perfectly at any resolution"


Does this allow you to select the video codec being used for capture? If so, use a lossless codec such as HuffyUV...

[mayor]

Originally posted by setarip
"I've got an Aver TV plus capture board which displays TV perfectly at any resolution"
Does this allow you to select the video codec being used for capture? If so, use a lossless codec such as HuffyUV...

No, the parameters I can choose from are:

For video:

Bit Rate
Image Size
Frame Rate
Motion Vector (horizontal and vertical)
GOP
Sub GOP
MPEG1 or MPEG2

For audio:

Sample Rate 32, 44.1 or 48
Mode - stereo, joint stereo, deal channel, or mono
Bit Rate - from 32 to 192

Any ideas here?

Joel

[setarip]

I'm afraid I caan't offer any insight. With your system and a hardware capture setup, I can't see why you should be dropping frames - especially in MPEG1 or MPEG2.

Perhaps a more knowledgeable poster can provide some meaningful insight...