A newbie needs help Thanks

[Archonamr]

Hi. Yesterday I bought a Easy TV Capture and I'm trying to record on my PC from a Dish 301. I'm very newbie on this so any help or tip will be gladly apreciate.
I've tried with various softwares: PowerVCR, WINDVR, VirtualDub, Virtual VCR. The problem is that the smallest file of 1 minute that I recorded is 24 Mega. What I'm looking for is to fit a +-40minutes VCD on a single cdr.
This is what I have:
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
512 Mb of PC133 RAM
Ati Radeon 7000 PCI
Easy TV Capture

Which software do you sugest?
Thanks

[redwudz]

What format are you capturing in? MPG or AVI and at what resolution? What codec are you using to capture?

[Archonamr]

Hi.
Thanks for replying.
I've tried both Mpg and avi, don't remember about resolution and codec.
As I said I'm totally newbie and I'm looking for sugestions.
I'll try anything that you sugest with the hardware I have.
What I want is to capture TV and be able to burn around 40 mins of vcd in a single cdr with a decent quality.
Thanks again.

[redwudz]

You should have no problem getting 40 minutes on a VCD with decent quality. Read the VCD specs to the left. The easiest is to capture directly to MPG1. If have the time and HD space better is to capture to AVI using the huffy codec or picvideo. Read the articles and guides here to get more information.

[Archonamr]

Again, which software should I use to capture? with wich settings?
Can you point me to a guide for this?

[Beavis]

I suggest using VirtualDub to capture an AVI using some type of mjpeg or HuffyUV codec if your card will allow it. After that you can easily edit out commercials, etc. using VirtualDub as well... and in the end you can use TMPGenc or something like that to convert to the final mpeg that will be burned to your CD for playing. Spend time reading the forums and guides to your left.