Capture VHS

[galehickey]

Purchased Sonic MyDVD v4.5.2 - have WINXP with 35 gigs of free space. When I go to the "capture" screen I set the record time to the time of the VHS but a message at the bottom of the screen says that 1 hr and 27 min is availabe on C: - to repeat I have 35 gigs of free space.
Tried changing quality from BEST to Better,etc and it did not increase time very much. Went ahead and started capturing and sure enough the program stopped after 1 hr 26 min and 30 sec.
Any help. Thank you.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Check your recording settings. What are you trying to make?? A DVD?? A vcd??? A divx file??? The destination is very important. For dvd you'll want an mpeg2 (or avi but this will have to be converted to mpeg2 or loaded into a dvd authoring program that accepts avi). They're should be at least 3 or 4 preprogramed record modes for dvd. Lowering the quality will increase the recording capacity.

Kevin

[galehickey]

Am trying to make a DVD but the 1 hour and 27 min will not put the a VHS on my HD irregardless of what I am trying to make.

[Nelson37]

What OS are you using and how is your HD formatted? Fat32, by chance?

Filling out your profile would be helpful.

Also suggest using different capture software. Anything other than Sonic.

[galehickey]

As my origianal post stated my OS is XP. Have FAT32. What software would you recommend. Thanks.

[Blazey]

Is the capture software set for MPEG2?

[Blazey]

Am trying to make a DVD but the 1 hour and 27 min will not put the a VHS on my HD irregardless of what I am trying to make.

No, Yoda was correct to ask this. If your output was VCD this would greatly increase your available record time.

[Coop]

Let's back this up - what kind of capture card and computer hardware do you have? The file format matters b/c you can't have individual file sizes above 4GB with FAT32 - you'll need NTFS.

The more info you provide, the more helpful we can be.

[thecoalman]

As my origianal post stated my OS is XP. Have FAT32.

Format it to NTFS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307881

[galehickey]

I was asked for the volume label - where do I find this?

[thecoalman]

I could be wrong here, I've never ha to do it but I think you can just right click the drive and select format....... Might want to let someone else respond to clarify.

[hwoodwar]

Galehickey

35Gig of free space and it is telling you it can only record 1hr 27min, it sounds to me like it is trying to capture in an avi format. If that is so, see if you can change it to capture to mpeg format. That should give you much more record time.

[thecoalman]

Galehickey

35Gig of free space and it is telling you it can only record 1hr 27min, it sounds to me like it is trying to capture in an avi format. If that is so, see if you can change it to capture to mpeg format. That should give you much more record time.

His drive is formatted fat32, there's a 4 gig file limit regardless of how much available space you have.

[galehickey]

Changed FAT to NTFS - Still 1HR 27 MIN recording time AVAILABLE!
I can set the recording time to any figure but the screen will tell you how much is available. I see no option of AVI or MPEG.
I have an Adaptec card and as I mentioned Sonic MyDVD software. Can anyone suggest another program? Thanks.

[Delerious]

Could it be your software? An hour 27 min. sounds
pretty close to Standard DVD (720x480) at 8Mbits/sec. I
haven't used MyDVD in a long time, is there any way to
change the bit rate?

J

[galehickey]

My software is Sonic MyDVD v4.5.2 - have used it in the past with no problems. I would download a VHS tape that was too long to put on one disc - at any rate I would put the time of the tape in and I had no available time limit. Not with the gigs I have free.

[crazythunder]

my dvd captures in nothing but mpeg. now that you formatted to ntfs, try uninstalling-reinstalling the app. with 35 gigs free, you should be able to capture way more than that.

[galehickey]

crazythunder thank you - my magic number went to 3 hr 29 min -
thanks agin!

[steve2713]

That's still not right, 3 1/2 hours for 35gb!? Should be way more, like 20 hours +, if you are capturing MPG to fit to DVD.

[galehickey]

I am capturing a VHS to my HD. MyDVD is installed to C: with 9 gigs free. My partition that I am capturing to is a folder in D: with 35 gigs free.