Someone Please help on this

[raybond]

Ok here goes , I have a ati all inwonder 7500 series card ...so far i love it does everything I need I think LOL ...I have a few question that i cant seem to find the answers to without haveing a pile of coasters on my desk...Im wanting to capture some dtv satallite movies and burn them to dvd with the best possible quality (one Movie per dvd )about 2 hours or so average I have p4 1.6 gig machine 640 meg of ram 7200 baracuda 40 gig drive ... using the mmc 7.5 that came with my card ....question 1 what foramt should i save the capture to? and what size? i can save it as mpeg under the digital vcr tab as good quality which is 640 x240 (ntsc) 525 and it looks good when i view it with the player but when i save it a dvd quality which is 720x480 i get all kinds of freezing and the audio is way off ....im using S video cable i really want the best quality i possible can get Im really not intersted in vcd ... dvd is better I think lol anyways Im a newbie at this and I dont care to admittt it but hey Im not above asking for help So do i need a later version of software mmc? I really do apprecaite any help on this .... Im sure some of you Pros have the answers ...... Many thanks for any and all replies

[peregrin]

check out the guides section at the left side of this page, Lord smurf has a reasonable guide for ATI AIW captures. Either capture at 720x480 avi and then encode to mpeg2 then author for use on a DVD, or capture 720x480 mpeg 2 direct and then author for DVD.

Check out smurfs guides they should give you an idea, you might have to reduce the frame size to 352x480 it all depends on the amount of frame dropping you get. you'll have to experiment a bit and find out what works best for you on your computer and use DVD-RW's to test things with instead of making coffee coasters

[raybond]

Hey thanks for the reply I really apprecaite it .. I have been reading the Post though but like I say im having a little trouble figuring it out .. remember im a newbie here lol Ill keep reading anyone else have any more input???

[antonv]

The fact that with resolution 720x480 you have video problems most likely shows that you have either slow hardware (proccessor, harddrive or memore) or the driver problem. For example, if you have "??% dropped frames" message near the timer when you capture in MMC, it means you need faster CPU.
I made some tests with ATI All-In-Wonder 7500 in the past and I would suggest the best setting for MMC 7.5 is "DVD quality" setting. Even though it has resolution not 720x480, but 352x240 (so you should not be having problems with video freezing), it has 8 mb/s bitrate which makes it close to real DVD quality. If you compare "DVD" and "Good" capture settings, you will notice a little difference. So, if you have problem with DVD quality setting, try Good quality setting.
Unfortunately, MMC, even though very easy to use, does not give the best quality possible with ATI AIW cards. The best quality can be reached with Avi codec such as DIVX, PCMJPEG and HUFFY (MPEG-1,MPEG-2,DIVX,... are all different codecs). Capturing to AVI codecs is really complicated process (you can not do it in MMC because it has problems with this codecs) and you would face many video problems such as sync and deinterlacing.
In this step of your video capture experience using DVD or Good capture settings with MMC will give you the best and easiest capture.

[raybond]

Hey antonv,
here is what my screen looks like is there something wrong? as you can see its on dvd and its showing 720x480.....can you please give me some guide lines for my 7500 card? maybe thats why i cannot capture on the dvd setting ya think? because its at 720 ? i also checked my cpu usage when im getting the freezing im only using like 10 percent or so..Im using windows xp pro any help would be greatly apprecaited .....thanks I am new at this and would like to capture the best quailty i possible can like dvd quality is there something similiar to what i have only better?
up date I jsut tried vdub and it will capture in 720x 480 with out any problems I just can t get the audio to work and the file is way big I have 40 gig drive and had only 57 mins left to capture sheeeewww something wrong there lol but the vidoe was perfect so i dont think its my pc its was only using like 15percetn recourses any ideas?

[raybond]

I have found this win dvdr by intervideo it seems to work great ... can someone give me some ideas of what to save my satalite movies at like the formatt and bit rate ect.... i saved 1 minute with the dvd setting and the file was way to lager or at least i thought it was ... what sould one minute of good dvd quality video be ????? 720x480? 352x??? im lost here please help im lookinng to put like only one movie on a dvd with the best of qquality any ideas please thanks all

[antonv]

You did not specify your computer details, so I did not know what CPU speed you have. It seems your CPU is fast enough, you just have problems with MMC. If you are OK with VirtualDub, try capturing using Divx codec which has the best size/quality ratio of all codecs. Try to use this guide (Select 720x480 resolution instead of 352x240, YUV2 for Image format, The maximum bitrate in divx settings. Change framerate 29.97 fps instead of 25 fps if you want to capture to NTSC)

[raybond]

YAAAHHOOO lol now that what ive been wantiing to know lol thanks alot now i have some good guides , I know alot of stuff is on th net but for the last 4 nights I ve read so much it all starts running together ..... I do apprecaite you taking the time to reply antonv all is greatly apprecaited ..Im going to go now and do some testing thanks again

[raybond]

I cant seem to find the option for the yuv2 still searching any pointers here anyone thanks....... ps version im using is 1.5.4 build 16297 do i have the wrong version ????? in this version there are only 2 formatts to choose from YUY2and UYVY whats up with that ?? I think I got the idea youre telling me but maybe im missing something hereis ther a guide for the latest version ? can you help please advise

[antonv]

I am sorry, raybond, I ment Y??2, so your YUY2 is fine. It is a least important option of all the options you have to set. Do not worry so much about it. Even if you can not find YUY2, you can use UYUY.

[raybond]

Thanks for all youre help its all aspprecaited ...can you tell me what my file size whould be like one minute of vodeo equalls whow many meg

[antonv]

It depends on your codec and bitrate. If you have Divx 5.0.5 and chose 4 mb/s, 1 minute would be appr. 20-30 mb. It also depends on the video itself. It should not be more then 5x VCD size, so it should be <50mb per minute.