i found that use winfast PVR sofeware to cap AVI file is much clear and sharp then mpg2 at same resolution that is 720*576.but i found that AVI at the sofeware cannot set the bitrate so i get 10sec for avi file is 200MB.that is too big!!!and i scare my hardisc will spoil.anything i can do to minimine the size because i found that bitrate is 20725K.but the configuration only can set resolution but not for bitrate and hope got people cna help me.or can recomend another sofeware to captue AVI file format?hehe