ATI TV Wonder VE Digital VCR - Recommended Settings

[eyeofbeholder]

I've looked through the past posts and couldn't really find what I was looking for. If this is a repeat post, my apologies.

My question is this, what settings do others use to capture Digital video using the ATI MMC 7.1 software and the TV Wonder VE card? I have some video on my VCR that I would like to create AVI files for.

Due to file size problems, I am attempting to capture to AVI format, but the audio & video are out of sync. I've tried several of the supplied Codecs without any success. Should I be capturing to AVI format, or be using either MPEG-1 or MPEG 2? Should I run the file through Vitrual Dub?

Any help would be appreciated.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Try YUY2(native) or MPEG-2(640x240) and convert.
Stinky has a neat regtool located in "Tools",you can make a xvcd(MPEG-1)no converting necessary.

[hitechjunkie]

i capture a lot toons for my son using the ati tv wonder/VCR under MMC 7.1 and what i do is capture to a 352x240 MPEG-1, VBR video bitrate of at least 3.55Mbs. i then re-encode to a lower (acceptable) bitrate MPEG-1/XVCD, using TMPGEnc with "noise reduction" filter (100/1/100), for playback on my standalone.

if the audio/video are out of synch, ur probably dropping too many frames on capture. you could try frameserving that AVI (with the dropped frames) with VDUB and changing the video framerate "so video and audio durations match" ("Video->Frame Rate->Frame Rate Conversion"). this has helped me encode a synched MPEG/XVCD when there were excessive dropped frames on the capture.

[eyeofbeholder]

Thanks much for your advise! I'll try it out.