my Sony DRU500 burner didn't burn good quality. Why?

[RichardDVD]

Hello people,

I'm a newbie. I just purchased my DRU500 Sony DVD burner. I have an older Hauppage capture card (7years old). Does it make any difference if the capture card is older? Will the quality turn out not as good as the new ones?

I'm trying to capture using VirtualDub then convert to Mpeg using TMPGEnc then burn to DVD using MovieFactory. It turns out the DVD is not as in good quality as I expected. I have followed all the steps and nothing works. I'm just wondering if it has something to do with an older capture card. Please help me, y'all. Thank you so much.

Richard

[Faustus]

Not a capture expert, but I can tell you this. The Burner should have nothing to to with the quality of the output picture, except for maybe a little pixelizion but thats only on really bad/border line wont' play at all type media.

Its likely a problem with either the capture card, the encode settings on the DVD software, or the video source quality.

[RoopeT]

More info please:

- Capture settings (resolution, colorspace, codec etc.)
- TMPGEnc encoding settings (interlaced/not, resolution, bitrate, motion search precision etc ...)
- Any filters used?

There's nothing wrong with your capture card, you just have to learn how to use in more efficiently.

[igalan]

As flaystus said, the DVD burner has nothing to do with the quality of the captures, it just burns the files to DVD.

Getting good quality captures takes some practice. There are many factors that come here:

-Quality of the capture card
-Interface of the capture card (PCI, USB2, AGP, FireWire)
-Drivers of the capture card (WDM or VXD)
-Quality of the source (VHS, DV...)
-Interface source->capture (S-video, composite, FireWire)
-Destination: mpeg1, mpeg2, avi (codec used)

I have a PCI TV tuner (Aver TV) with WDM dirver (Windows XP) that does a good job capturing VHS with S-Video or Composite at 640x480 25 fps, YUV2. I capture to MPEG2 with the program bundled. I can capture up to 720x576, but at this resolution ocasionally I get noise in some frames (I've been told this is because the PCI bus can't keep up the transfer rates at this resolution -no frames lost, just noise-).

If you explain better your scenario, we could give you more precise tips. There's a forum for capturing more appropriate .