Capture DVD from Stand Alone convert to VCD in real time, HE

[Mister D]

I have read topics and it seems like there are a lot of steps and time involved in converting and encoding DVD's to be recorded into vcd, has anyone done this, take a Stand Alone DVD Player, hook a video stabilzer on the video out to defeat macrovision, hook both video and audio into the video capture card composite connections, record to the hard drive and then use nero to record into vcd. I have the ATI All In Wonder 128 Pro Card. I can't do this with the dvd rom drive in my computer because theres no way to record directly to the hard drive in real time with the dvd playing, I tried it with a vcr tape and it worked with fairly good picture quality not great but fair.

Thanks Mister D

[deadpac]

Ripping and encoding a DVD from a DVD-ROM drive takes about as much time as if you were to capture the DVD through your capture card. Both methods still involve encoding with an MPEG encoder which takes A LOT of TIME.

Capturing to your drive first through your capture card may seem more simple but you also have to worry about which codec to capture with and at what res, fps,......

With DVD-ripping you don't have to worry about quality since you've basically copied the entire contents of the DVD onto your drive without losing anything in the way of picutre quality. Capturing involves worrying about how the capture will look coming in and being encoded to play out onto a standalone DVD player.

Unless you are capturing directly to MPEG through your All In Wonder, which in that case is much like a VCR, just press play and Record in real-time, this is the easiest and fastest of the 3 methods but usually it leads to inferior looking output as opposed to encoding sessions that take anywhere from 6 hours to 12hour and produce very good output.