Video capture card captures are out of sync!

[utada_exodus]

Hey guys, i was hoping someone could help me on this video capture problem.

I bought a Spirit PC TV Tuner to capture video tapes into .avi format. I used the software provided in the box (PCI TV Tuner software) but the resulting .avi files are very choppy. So I tried using Dr. DivX to do the live capture. This almost worked, except the .avi file is out of sync. The audio is a couple seconds out of sync with the video. I spent hours and hours trying to find a solution, without success. Should I use a different software, perhaps?

thanks~

[LT. Columbo]

mine will do that if cpu % goes over 70 or so, so i don't have anything else going on while capturing. no heavy cpu usage going on? it should mention something of this nature right in the instructions/help file.

[Floppy]

NeroVision express supports video capture via TV tuner....

[tigerman8u]

does your pc have a video card or audio on mother board

[Floppy]

My PC... The Audio is onboard Nvidia Soundstorm utilizing The Realtek Codec 658 (My Mobo ABIT AN7 Bios 1.9)

The TV Capture card is a Leadtek PVR2000

The Video card is a Leadtek A340 TD 256MB

[j1mmy]

utada_exodus, it sounds like you're having the probelm almost everyone has when capturing with non-hardware encoding tv tunars, and thats framedrops. Use the latest version of Virtual Dub to capture and do it first to a lossless processor-light codec like Huffyuv, Lagarinth or MJPEG. Then after you've captured your video, re-encode to the format desired like Xvid. There's commerical software avaliable like WinDVR that can capture straight to MPEG1/MPEG2, but with that you're still running the risk of framedrops if you don't have a fast computer.

If you're planning to convert lots of things, you might want to consider buying a capture card with a hardware encoder like the ATI Theater or WinTV PVR series.

[oldhack]

out of sync

Hey guys, i was hoping someone could help me on this video capture problem.

I bought a Spirit PC TV Tuner to capture video tapes into .avi format. I used the software provided in the box (PCI TV Tuner software) but the resulting .avi files are very choppy. So I tried using Dr. DivX to do the live capture. This almost worked, except the .avi file is out of sync. The audio is a couple seconds out of sync with the video. I spent hours and hours trying to find a solution, without success. Should I use a different software, perhaps?

thanks~

Had that problem with the ads box. changed to wintv pvr by haughpaugh.
Some cards do not work with some chipsets either. i had the VIA chipset and everything was out of sync until i updated the VIA chipset. Id say change you pvr card because your probably not going to find software that is reliable.