Hi all. I have been capturing VHS and 8mm video with my ATI TV Wonder VE card and PowerVCRII as a CVD and burning it to CD-R for about a year now & it plays on my DVD player just fine. My system was a duron 650, 192Mb PC133 RAM, 8GB HD.
I now have a new computer with a dvd burner. Since it is a faster CPU with more memory and HD space, I thought that I could now capture video at full DVD resolution.
I now have 2 questions after searching through this web site:
1) If my video is still VHS and 8mm, is the full 720x480 res and ~6000 bitrate MPEG2 capture of any benefit or is it overkill. Should I stick with the CVD specs and also fit more onto a DVD.

2) PowerVCRII won't allow me to capture audio at 48KHz (only 44.1), even at DVD resolutions. I am about to try TMPGDVD author and was wondering if this will change the audio for me or is there a better program. I am also trying to cut out commercials and haven't found a truly satisfying way of doing it without audio sync problems so I was hoping that TMPG DVD would work as well. Womble was terrible.

Is there a registry hack in PowerVCRII to change the audio sampling frequency? I have already hacked the resolutions.
Thanks for any help. Clarification of CVD vs DVD would also be helpfull. I always thought CVD was 1/2D1 but I guess that refers to resolution and not audio.