NanoDVR, CinePlayerDVR, PowerVCR .... any thoughts?

[TheInformer]

Has anyone worked with these three programs? What kind of results did you get? Does one give better output than the others?

If I'm going to get one, I'd rather not get the poorest of the pack

[djmorgan]

Well the demo version of Nanodvr I can't get to capture beyond a few seconds and no response from their tech support on the issue.

What it does capture looks okay but mpeg2 has compatability problems - does not seem to be to SVCD spec.

PowerVCR only works with a limited number of capture cards, as I have a 3dfx card it did not work for me, which was the beginning of my realisation that my 3dfx card is a very good capture card and the vcr tools that came with it are also grest - if not limited.

[Robbins1940]

Avoid cineplayerdvr at all costs. It crashes 99% of the time when you record. Do yourself a favour and buy a capture card capable of hardware mpeg encoding.

David

[qaa]

I tried a demo of PowerVCR with WINTV PCI and was impressed.
I tried NanoDVR Hauppage edition with WINTV PCI also and produce a good quality VCD with it.
Between two I prefer PowerVCR (caution only WDM driver support)

[dirk67]

Yesterday I tried nanoDVR with best settings set to best quality. The advantage is the capture in realtime, so you don't need much disk space. But capturing with virtualdub, huffyuv, dnr, deinterlacing, resizing and encoding with TMPGEnc gives you MUCH better quality. For me it's worth the extra effort in time and disk space.