IuVCR and mpeg 2 codecs

[pb]

I'm trying to use IuVcr to capture through my Canopus ADVC100 straight to mpeg2. I can capture fine to DV, but I can't seem to install a mpeg 2 codec that IuVcr can see in its video compression list. I tried installing a trial of MC 1.3 encoder, no good. Ulead DVD MF2 is too buggy, it gets to about an hour or so and stops, flushing its transcode buffer, and does not have a scheduler. I tried DVD MF2 on a Xp2400+ Nvidia M/B with 1Gig RAM and a 120G HDD also a P4 2.4 with 512Mb Ram and a 80G HDD, same result.

Any ideas?? I would like to use a good quality mpeg codec.

[Muffzilla]

Good luck. What you need is called a vcm version of a codec. Sometimes codecs are locked for use only with certain applications. Those types will not be available in what you are trying to do. Other ones, called vcm, show up. DivX is an example of a vcm codec.

[emigrant]

You can find them. For instance, you can search for Adaptec DVSoft. MainConcept's is good too.

However, I use the same kit you do ... advc-100, athlon 2200+, generally the same ... also use iuVCR.

I want to edit commercials out of what I capture, and my best results are to always use huffy, edit in vdub, then frameserve to tmpgenc. Bear in mind that the native DV in iuVCR is Type 1 and some apps only like Type 2 (premiere comes to mind).

My short answer is capture in .avi using native DV, the canopus will do the hard lifting, and encode using tmpgenc or similar. You can't capture native mpeg2 through iuvcr, it has to capture .avi's.

[DaveS]

I've actually got the same problem - advc100 to iuVCR then can transcode in procoder... but uncompressed AVI chews up my disk space and for some things I want to record, it's not worth the native dv format / quality...the codecs in iuVCR seem to be color coded in the dropdown- the black ones I can use (uncompressed DV) but the green and the blue I don't seem to get any capture so I assume I need to install the codec...any suggestions for capturing in something more compressed?