Problems Recording from VHS to MPEG/VCD

[equinox]

I'm a newbie to the world of VCD/DVD and I have come accross a few problems while recording MPEGs to record to VCD. I have created many working VCDs, but I've got 2 problems.

The first, is that a small, grey bar is at the bottom of the video, and this is still there after the MPEG file is written to a 74Min CD-R as a VCD.

The second, is with one commercial video that I'm trying to record. (BTW, its Star Trek: Voyager video 5.4 Australian version, just in case anyone else has the same problem) When I try to record the episode to a VCD rate MPEG using CinePlayer DVR 2.51, the frame rate is very poor and the video runs twice as fast as the audio when played back, and if I record more than 30 seconds of it, CinePlayer will freeze when I stop recording. When I try to record the video with Virtual Dub, while recording, the frame rate appears very poor, and when I play the captured AVI file in any media player, the video speeds up and slows down during playback, but the timer just counts normally, and the audio is fine. I am able to encode the video to ASF with Windows Media Encoder 7, but not to MPEG or AVI. This problem happens with any part of that VHS cassette, but does not with any other cassette or any other Voyager videos that I have.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: equinox on 2001-12-23 17:41:15 ]</font>

[equinox]

Anyone?

[doug1937@hotmail.com]

First problem is because when you capture footage from VHS tape, you also capture the closed caption and other information that is coded into the signal but not displayed on your TV. For some reason this not-for-normal-display information is displayed as video information when it's captured into an MPEG file. The only thing I can think of is to crop it out either during capture or afterwards, in post-capture processing.

No idea on the second problem, sorry.