Capturing Video to Mpeg using WinTVGo ?

[missionmasque]

Can I capture straight to Mpeg with the WinTVGo, instead of capturing to Avi first and then converting ?

What software and system requirements are needed ?

Thanks.

Tony.

[MarkLV]

Can I capture straight to Mpeg with the WinTVGo, instead of capturing to Avi first and then converting ?

Yes, you can. There are available capturing/editing applications that
support capturing straight to MPEG. For example, Ulead Visual Studio,
that comes with built-in on-line Ligos MPEG1/MPEG2 encoder.

What software and system requirements are needed

In addition to application like mentioned before, I would recommend you
pay attention on choosing good drivers for your WinTVGo card. Good
driver is critical issue for all BT8x8 based cards.

About system requirements, it can vary: this is question of quality of
resulting MPEG. What quality of MPEG would you like to obtain: VCD
(MPEG1/320x240), SVCD (MPEG2/480x480) or DVD (MPEG2/720x480) ?
What about frame rate (full motion or less)? What about color (24bit,
16bit, 12bit)? I think, it starts from ~500Mhz CPU/128mb
RAM/UDMA disk (reasonable quality MPEG1) and the sky is limit.

[missionmasque]

Thanks for that, I'll mostly be capturing to Mpeg1 for VCD quality.

At the moment I am running an old system of P166, 192 Meg Ram. This has been fine for things in the past, Internet, Cd burning and even midi but has no chance with the things I want to do with Video.

I use computers at work, so the home system has fallen behind a lot.

I'm upgrading to a 1.2 gig AMD with new M/B. Hope this will be enough for MPEG1 Capture and Edit work ?