Powervcr Mpegs are off...Need new capture software

[bamafamily]

Hey All,

I capture DVD compliant TV shows via PowerVCR
The resulting MPEG is fine throughtout the entire 60 minutes

Whenever I try to author that Mpeg into a DVD (used DVD MF, DVDWS, TMPGenc&Ifoedit) I get a gradual 2-3 second audio sync problem by the end of the movie
I think my source Mpeg might be the problem..ie PVCR..although it never happened when I did direct SVCD's to my CDRW's. Now that I must author onto DVD's, I am getting incompatibilities between the PVCR Mpeg and the resulting DVD output via any authoring software I used.

Can anyone suggest another decent capturing software???
I would like to use DVD Movie Factory as it is just what I am looking for.

thx
Mark

ps..I am using a Winfast 2000XP video card with their latest WDM drivers

[shadowrunner]

I have run into the same issue. I have been looking for a solution to no avail. It's been driving me nuts! I think it has to do with the audio being 44hz instead of DVD compliant 48hz . There is no way to adjust this in powervcr.

[bamafamily]

actually...the audio captures are 48000hz Make a cap in PVCR, then open in TMPGenc using the mpeg tools/multiplex option. You will see that is indeed 48000 hz

I am thinking it is the frame rate....
in the registry, PVCR shows the frame rate as 30 fps...not 29.97 fps.
I cant change the 30 as it is in decimal/hex format.. i am not sure this is the problem tho...I am just hypthesizing....

mark

[shadowrunner]

When ever I Author in DVDWorkshop with do not encode compliant blah blah checked. It never touches the video. It does always reencode the audio. I notice that when I make lpcm default rather than mpeg the sync shifts less but it still shifts.

[paulgab]

If you want some commercial progs, you can try PowerDirector instead. It has more settings to choose from than PowerVCR. Interface is also better. You can capture in MPEG or AVI formats. No A/V sync probs at all. I was able to capture MPEG2-DVD format using this prog and has no problem with DVD authoring program (I tried to make mini DVD before).

If you want freebie progs VirtualVCR is for you. It works great on WDM drivers. Captures in AVI then just encode it with TMPGenc to DVD compliant MPEG2 then author it to your program.