I had an old WinTV PCI capture card and it worked fine with Virtualdub, but the quality was very poor, so I decided to buy a new capture card.

First tried the Video Blaster DVCR from Creative Labs. Not entirely sure why this seemed like a good idea at the time. But it definately did not work well. Quality was almost as bad as my 3 year old WinTV card. So this went straight back to the store.

Next I decided I should try spending more money and maybe I'll get better quality capture. So I bought a Dazzle DVC 150. This set me back $200 retail. The capture quality is good. However I hate the software it comes with, Moviestar 5. It offers very little control over capturing and encoding. I have lots of problems encoding to AVI because I can not configure the DivX codec within the program. But worst of all, VirtualDub does not recognize the DVC 150 as a capture device!

Is there a way to use VirtualDub with my Dazzle DVC 150?

If not, does anyone have any recommendations of capture cards that actually have good quality capture and work with VirtualDub?

What I'm trying to do is capture from TV, VHS, and DVD and encode to AVI (Divx) and sometimes to DVD.