tv capture to vcd

[Nosier]

I have not really seen anything that helps with what I would like to do, it's real simple, record off tv and put to vcd. what settings would be the best to get a decent quality but get the most on the cd..

WinDVR appears to be be one of the best capture programs I have found that will save in an mpeg1/2 format and auto-cut the recording to a size that will fit the cd...

I have played with different settings and it looks like I can get about 1 1/2 hours on a cd..

has anyone else played with doing this?

I would rather not have to re-encode the recording and it looks like I shouldn't have to since I can change most of the settings..

any help would be grateful...


thanks

[mtamilia]

I am afraid it is not possible to do what you want, maybe even if you have a Ferrari-like PC.
You can get external hardware devices to capture real-time at MPeg1 or Mpeg2 in VCD or SVCD format, but that will still limit you to 80 minutes or 40 minutes time on a single CD.

I put nearly two hours of TV in a standard 80-min CD, but the only way seems to be:

capture plain AVI or with lossless encoder like HuffyUV;
this will produce a huge file unfortunately.
then make an XSVCD using TMPGenc and a bit rate in the area of 700kbps. The last release of TMPGenc (the commercial one) will automatically compute the bit rate to fit your disk once you tell the program the size of the disk.

You'll get barely decent quality recording for 2 hours, and assuming your DVD player can then read the disk afterwards.

[xed]

You say you can get "about 1 1/2 hours on a vcd."
If you're using 800 meg CD-Rs, then you should get 80 minutes -- close enough to the 1 1/2 hours you want (that is, to 90 minutes).
The plain-vanilla VCD template in TMPGEnc should do fine. If your CD-R burner can support an 800 meg CD-R, Nero can burn a VCD to it. All you hve to do is encode with the standard TMPGEnc template (1150 kbit/sec, 352 x 240) and burn the MPEG-1 files with Nero onto an 800 meg CD-R.
You should get 80 megs of reasonable quality video with no problem.