I am a newbie in Video capturing.

Today I installed TV2000 XP Deluxe. I got this card from newegg and no problem in installing. I did not download any drivers from their website. I just used the available drivers on the CD. I think I got the newest version in the CD. I created a sample DVD (15 minutes) with a TV Movie and my Sonic MyDVD took almost 4 hours to burn it. But I got an exceptional quality.

Could someone please let me know why is it taking that much time to burn DVD. I captured the file in MPEG-2 format. Is there any advantage in capturing directly in to MPEF-2 format?

I wanted to try SVCD too. Could someone please let me know to create SVCD using this card?