Which MPEG encoder to get for VHS/LD to DVD????????

[rsl614]

So I need to capture lots of home movies, and record them to DVD.

I have a:
Pentiium 4 2.2hz
120 gig hard drive
Geforce 4 w/64megs ram
512 megs system RAM

I am out of AGP slots

What kind of capture device should I get? What kind are you guys using?
I'm not going to pull out that video card for an ATI nightmare, and I'd like something that does hardware encoding. I'd also prefer to keep the price down as much as possible.

Thanks for any advice,

Rob

[holistic]

LOTS OF MOVIES ????

Do you have a DV (or digital 8 ) camera with analog inputs?

Otherwise the Canopus AVDC-100 is an option. It takes analog inputs and outputs a Digital Video stream (DV). Any PCI firewire card will gladly acccept that data !

Some firewire cards come with capture / editing software
Get TMPGEnc for your MPEG@ encoding needs


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hardware encoding will limit you. you will be restricted to whatever the card can do. i agree it is faster though .