video capture with 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]

never do this, that is bad capturing!

The reason is because when u capture something and use a compression at the same time, the quality is very poor because u r telling the CPU to do a lot of work which means more frames are dropped etc.. etc..

Always do this:

NO RECOMPRESSION
YU12/YV12
352*288/320*240
30fps
CD QUALITY PCM audio

and capture

use a hauppauge wintv go pci card (very cheap, < £40 UK)

It will give u near DVD quality and better.

Techno

[FaMiNe]

I've used the HUFFYUV codec recently (a lossless codec, which takes down the filesize quite a bit compared to uncompressed), without dropped frames...

but you'll need a faster rig to handle real time compression, even lossless