WinTV PVR Capture problems

[JochenS]

I want to capture some home videos from camcorder connected to the WinTV PVR card using the A/V jacks.
Goal is to get highest quality (playback on standalone DVD player Apex 660) without "wasting" space.
The settings in WinTV I used are: 480x480 MPEG2, Variable Bitrate, transport bitrate = 3000, bitrate= 2500. Audio is set to 44.1 kHz, 192kbps. This is a template for SVCD Cd's I downloaded.
First of all I thought the MPEG2 file I get from WinTV should be ready to burn. Nero does not accept this file.
I followed the guide here so I multiplexed with TMPGEnc. TMPG ends with the message "994 s packets cause buffer underflow. The MPEG file might cause errors when it played".
What does this mean?
The file before or after multiplexing plays crapy on the computer. I burned anyways just to see and on the TV it looks little better but still not good at all. Not comparable to watching the original camcorder VHS-C tape.
Any ideas?

My system:
AMD 1.2Ghz, 1 GB Ram, about 20GB free on HD

[JochenS]

Remark:
Trying to load the MPEG in TMPGEnc as Video Source, e.g. for reencoding will make TMPG crash. I just need to hit browse, select the file, hit OK, and TMPG will quit responding. I'm using Win 2000.

[SHS]

Use the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR MPEG Editor it support multiplexing must better then TMPGEnc win come to WinTV-PVR made files.
Note: Don't do any MPEG2 cutting if you do the audio will get out of line with the video in tell Hauppauge fix the MPEG Editor on cutting MPEG2 files.

You can all also do a CD split on them to CD size if want, You need to enable under Option | Split Option first pick the CD size you want 650 or 700MB CD disk size.
1: Click on Add Source then you stop autoplaying video.
2: Click on Add Interval
3: Click on Generate Output

After run it thur the editor you find files few file that look like this below.

C:\My Documents\My Videos\_dvcr002.mpg (96.6MB)
C:\My Documents\My Videos\_dvcr002.mpg.m1v (88.8MB) You can del after editor
C:\My Documents\My Videos\_dvcr002.mpg.mpa (6.72MB) You can del after editor

Root of C:\
C:\nanoEdit.mpg (96.8MB) Burn to CD
C:\nanoEdit.mpg.m1v.0 (88.7MB) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.mpg.mpa.0 (6.72MB) You can del after editor
Or if you do a CD Split you see more files then that some like this.
C:\nanoEdit.0.mpg (628MB) Burn to CD
C:\nanoEdit.0.mpg.m1v.1 (509MB) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.0.mpg.mpa.1 (109MBmb) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.1.mpg (511mb) Burn to CD
C:\nanoEdit.1.mpg.m1v.2 (417MB) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.1.mpg.mpa.2 (84.1MB) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.mpg (2.26KB) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.mpg.m1v.0 (12bytes) You can del after editor
C:\nanoEdit.mpg.mpa.0 (0bytes) You can del after editor

To get Hauppauge WinTV-PVR MPEG Editor 1.1.2
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_pvr_pci.htm#access

SHS Unofficial WinTV-PVR
http://shs-tv.m0ss.com/

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: SHS on 2001-10-04 17:45:44 ]</font>