Is it possible to capture straight to mpg?

[brits_bits]

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a program that allows you to capture straight to mpg. Does PowerVCR do it?

I'm using VideoWave 3 but I tried using version 5, which is supposed to be able to capture in mpg but it just causes errors.

I'm capturing episodes from Ally McBeal and Alias which I want to put on vcd. VideoWave 3 only captures in avi, which means I have to convert it to mpg, which takes a long time.

Are there any programs that can capture in mpg straight out?

Thanks for all your help!

I'm using a belkin Video Bus II capture card

[DRfrankenpimp]

go to video waves web site and download update v3.0 to 3.5 i think its a 7mb download,maybe that will help, but i think your card might not support mpeg capture. direrct capture to mpeg in videowave is terrible,its best to cap with mjpg codec and just convert.i have video wave 3 and updated to 3.5,it also has a template for converting to vcd format and it does a good job,i convert all hour and half hour shows i encode with vw3.5,anything longer i use tmpegenc.shows i encode with vw3.5 give me no trouble when playing on my dvd player.get the update and try it and let me know.

[Anonymous65]

Ulead videostudio, PowerVCR, Wincoder (WinDVR) can all capture in real-time mpeg. However, for VCD captures, the quality is not great. If you capture DVD video at bit rates over 5Mb/sec, the software encoder does a pretty good job.