Capturing directly to MPEG2 (DVD) with Hauppauge PVR-250

[Saxius]

I have a problem.

I am using Hauppauge PVR-250 for capturing and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 for DVD authoring.

When I capture in full DVD format (8000) Ulead DVD MF2 still has to convert the MPEG file and it takes a lot of time.
I tried to change the capture propertie to almost everithing and it still takes a long time to convert the video.

Could it be so that Hauppauges MPEG2 codec reinstalled the Uleads and they are different somehow?

What is the procedure to make it right and just record and burn the video in "one" step (without re-encoding/converting)?

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous65]

Are you sure Ulead is re-encoding the file, and not just authoring it? The authoring process will take a long time (on a slow PC). Ulead will take any correctly captured file from the PVR-350 without any re-encoding. Capture at 720x480 mpeg-2 with 48Khz audio.

[fender1]

If I were to use a WinTV PVR to capture directly from VHS at 48 khz audio, approx. how many hours of VHS video could I fit onto a DVD? I'm trying to get 5 hours or more of video onto a single DVD-R and am looking for the quickest way of doing this.

Any suggestions?

[Saxius]

Maybe re-encoding is a wrong word. Converting would be better.

Ulead is converting for a couple of hours before the burning starts.

I think it has to do with the capture properties...

[SHS]

See on shspvr.com I add a guide under How to Use

[Saxius]

If you mean http://home.comcast.net/wintv_pvr_250.html all i am getting is "Page URL Not Found!!"

[thayne]

In the settings (second button on the bottom left side of the screen) there is a check box to "Not re-encode" I forget what it's called. You may have to go into custom settings and create a setting with your bit rates to prevent re-encoding.

[Saxius]

The thing is that i did that!
And it is still re-encoding...

I will rephrase the question:
What are the settings that has to be made in WIINTV2000 in order to record DIRECTLY to DVD format that DVD Movie Factory 2 recognize as its own?

[Gil T Pleasure]

Make sure that the 'DVD template' you used to capture the video is the same when authoring in MF2.

I personally have not had any problem with MF SE or VS7 accepting my video (captured on WinTV-PVR250) as long as I don't edit the video first. When I remove the commercials, MF SE or VS7 re-encodes the video even when I tell it 'not to re-encode DVD compliant MPG files.'

[thayne]

The thing is that i did that!
And it is still re-encoding...

I will rephrase the question:
What are the settings that has to be made in WIINTV2000 in order to record DIRECTLY to DVD format that DVD Movie Factory 2 recognize as its own?

You're missing something, any of the DVD pre-sets will work without re-encoding. In MF 2 make a custom setting and put in the same resolution, bit rate and audio bitrate as your pvr template and it won't re-encode. I do this all the time so I know it works.

[thayne]

If I were to use a WinTV PVR to capture directly from VHS at 48 khz audio, approx. how many hours of VHS video could I fit onto a DVD? I'm trying to get 5 hours or more of video onto a single DVD-R and am looking for the quickest way of doing this.

Any suggestions?

If I were to do this I would capture with the standard DVD template, Author the DVD with any authoring app, then use DVD2one or DVDShrink to make it small enough to fit on a single DVD. 5 hours is kinda pushing it, if the final quality isn't acceptable, then you may want to split it to 2 DVD's

[leebo]

Saxius,

It would be helpful if you gave the EXACT capture settings and the EXACT authoring settings.

I suspect you are either capturing at too high a bitrate (8000kbps is overkill) or setting MF to auther at a lower bitrate than what your source files are (which will cause it to re-encode even though "do not re-encode" is checked.).

[Saxius]

I will try that again and I will answer here what happened.
Thanx for the advices!