on-the-fly capture to xvid- not playable on DVD

[gitarzysta]

I have WinFast TV Expert tv tuner card and I thought to use it as a VCR but instead of live capture to MPEG-2 I thought of MPEG-4 and Xvid was the obvious choice.
But any movie captured on the fly to xvid (or ffvfw, divx etc) is not playable on my Samsung HD745 DVD player (windows plays it fine, though).

Any xvid movies I have play flawlessly but not the ones I captured

But what's really strange for me: If I encode a captured avi file to xvid *after* (not on the fly) it plays! Same encoder settings!

Any ideas why?

Thanks!

[reboot]

Xvid sucks for capture. You may also have it set to two pass, which cannot be done. The same applies to Divx.

[gitarzysta]

Anyway why doesn't avi captured on-the-fly play on my DVD while encoded after plays? This is the tricky question

[reboot]

Have you tried playing a "captured on the fly" Xvid on the computer? Result?
Have you checked it's properties in Gspot, versus one encoded to xvid later?
Anything noticably different?

[gitarzysta]

On PC it plays ok, no issues, I will try Gspot and will report. Thanks