What is the best capture format?

[munster]

I am mainly going to use my TV card to record off of my TV and VCR tapes. What is best format to record in to burn it to a VCD with nero. I have a ATI Wonder TV card, Athlon 1.4 with 256 DDR ram and 30+ gig of HD space open.

[TheInformer]

Try using VirtualDub.

Capture at 352x480 using HuffYUV as the codec. 30 gigs of HD storage should hold an hour or so of video.

Apply any filters/enhancements you want to the video, then frameserve it to TMPGEnc to encode to VCD.

<----- There are menues on the left side that lead you to guides on how to do this.

[munster]

After i run it through TMPGEnc does it come out as full screen size when I play it on my DVD player or is it the same size I captured it as?

[Digifreak]

It will come out fine provided you have the right aspect ratios selected in TMPGEnc when you encode to VCD (4:3 source & 4:3 stream assuming you're not watching on widescreen TV). The aspect of your capture will also come out correctly provided you play it on a player that deals with non-square pixels (not Windows Media Player)