Cyberlink's PowerVCR II Problems--Anyone used this?

[googlioboy]

First off, to the moderator(s): This is a great forum!I get information here I just can't get anywhere else! Okay, now to my problem. I have a home-built computer with an Intel Pentium 600MHz processor, 512Mbs of RAM and a 40G hard drive that I use exlusively for video editing. I bought the Pioneer DVR-A03 DVD-R/DVD-RW drive, and a program from Cyberlink Industries called PowerVCR II that's supposed to let me convert the DV-AVI file from my Sony digital camcorder into MPEG2 when the file is downloading onto the hard drive. I'm using a Pyro Platium capture card. One of the things the PowerVCR program lets you do with the settings is set how good your video will look, based on your processor. I picked Superior, because it said I had to had a minimum of 600MHZ. But when I tried to use the program, the resulting MPEG2 file had good video, but the audio was "jerky." I went back and created custom settings for the Superior setting (changed the bit rate, audio compression, etc.) with the same results. Thinking that maybe I had a capture card compatability problem, I captured the footage into a DV-AVI file using Premiere, then used PowerVCR II to convert the file into MPEG2, which took just over the time the file ran in AVI. Everything looked and sounded okay. Which makes me think that I have a problem with compatability of my capture card. But if that's the case, why would just the audio be jerky and not both video and audio? Can some of you help me with the settings on this program? I think I'm just doing something wrong.

[Blacklotus]

perhaps remixing your sound in AFTER the encode will fix this problem. bbmpeg will do the trick i think

[VideoGuy]

Im not sure what your setup is, but most cap/tuner cards use your sound card for capping the audio part. Check make sure you dont have any conflicts. Even if your computer is able to share IRQs, you might want to put the sound card on its own IRQ.

What Im saying is it may not be the vid cap card, but the sound card being the problem during caps.

HTH