need opinions please...

[paacoeguntrez]

okay, i have a satellite system and i would like to encode directly from it at dvd quality to 1- burn to dvd 2- re-encode using divx for cdr.

i have an ati all-in-wonder radeon and i am using powervcrII 3.0
currently i have a p2- 400 with 384mb of pc100 memory (obviously can't handle... ).
i am looking at upgrading to an amd athlon xp1800 (1.533gigs i think) and 768mb ddr memory.

i have two questions:
1- in powervcr, the "dvd quality" setting is ntsc standard (720x480?) and the mpeg2 bitrate is at 4000k(?)- (sorry, not in front of it right now...)... is this what i want to use or should i "tweek" it to something else?

2- is the system i described that i'm looking at upgrading to powerfull enough to do this?


tia!

[paacoeguntrez]

anybody!?

[Sulik]

The AthlonXP is definitely powerful enough for capturing real time 720x480 at any bitrate (Although I'd stick with MMC over PowerVCR if you have the built-by-ATI Radeon).