Winfast 2000 XP Deluxe Settings Question

[fadywwf316]

Hi all, I have a Winfast 2000 XP Deluxe tv capture card and I was wondering, what settings should I use to fit 3 hours of footage onto a single dvd. I have the options to select bitrate (upto 10,000), video quality (up to 1,000), and resolution but thats 720x480 I guess since I want this to be written on to a dvd. The video codec is just called mpeg 2 codec and the audio is mpeg 1 audio layer II, let me know what you think the bitrate and quality should be, and if there are better compressed codec that would also play on normal dvd players.

[secretghost]

https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

[fadywwf316]

thanks thats awesome, but what should i do when it comes to the video quality setting?

[snafu099]

When I used any mpg setting, the file was NOT dvd compliant when I tried to author/burn the file- it used 44.1 audio not 48. Someone was kind enough to send email telling me to start with ntsc-dvd setting as base to create custom setting for correct biterate and resolution. Do a short cap and check properties. you want mpg1 L2 48mhz 224 bit audio for dvd compliance so author/burn program does have to re-encode

3000mb/s should get you 3-4hrs

[fadywwf316]

Ok thanks snafu, i just recorded a 3 hr even and everything was correct with the audio but i chose 128kb audio, is there any way to reencode at this point?

[snafu099]

Sorry i can't help futher. I don't edit, re-encode or any of that stuff.

From what I have read through the answer is yes. Not sure about trying to get better sound or vid if the source isn't there.
logic says you could re-encode to lesser but not higher