CaptyDVD & eyetv 200 help. mpeg-2 reencoded- capty chews on it for hour

[hmxdodger]

Ok,

so i am at my wits end. I have tried everything. My project: transferring home movie vhs tapes to dvd. I bought eyetv 200 for the "realtime mpeg-2 encoding," and capty for its ability to burn mpeg-2 files and still create professional menus. I export the mpeg files to a MPEG-2 program stream in eyetv 2.1. tried all the other streams too. keep the audio at 256 mpeg audio while captuing and trimming and capty audio option. I even use stream clip to trim the last few seconds off the file. Capty still wants to renecode when all my ducks are supposedly in a row. Someone, please shine some light on this situation for me. Thanks in advance.

[Frobozz]

Are you sure that CaptyDVD is re-encoding? It goes through a multiplexing stage that takes quite awhile and writes a new MPEG file as part of that process. If you take, say, a 30 minute MPEG and choose to save a VIDEO_TS folder, tell me how long it takes for it to get to the part where it starts encoding the menu. Also, tell me what processor your Mac has. I'll then do a comparison to find out if it is re-encoding or just multiplexing.

[hmxdodger]

thanks frobuzz, you may be right. I am doing that test right now. I am using an intel mac. I think it may be running capty in rosetta, thus the long time, is there any way to use another program optimized for intel to create the file capty is creating?