Hi all. I have been playing around with PowerVCRII to capture TV from my ATI TV Wonder VE card for a few years now. Originally I used it on my old Duron 650 with Windows 98SE, capturing 352 x 480 (after a registry hack to add this resolution and to increase the recorded file size) at a 3000 bitrate.

Things looked OK and it didn't appear that I had audio sync problems but there was slight blockiness when I played the video on my DVD player

I have since upgraded to a newer computer with an AMD Athlon 2600 80Gb hard drive and Windows XP. I added my capture card and re-installed PowerVCRII and applied the same registry hacks. I had about the same quality of video.

Recently I read a guide on LordSmurf's site about restoring the interlace. I thought that it couldn't hurt but I was wrong. I captured 3, 30 second clips : 352x480 3000bitrate, 704x480 6000 bitrate, 640x480 5000 bitrate.

First, I was getting half the resolution that I wanted (176x480 instead of 352x480) but as suggested I just added a res of 704x480, giving a 352x480 file. This captured video was really blocky and had serious audio sync issues. Scaling back to 640x480 seemed to give adequate results but there is a small but noticeable audio sync issue (and this was only on a 30 second capture so it may increase as the recording went on)

I then put the files through TMPG Enc Plus to make DVD compliant file at 352x480 resolution. The only usable file was from the 640x480 capture but there was a hiss in the audio. This appears to be because TMPG encoded it to 48Khz from 44.1. I tried again but adjusted the audio to encode at 44.1 and the hiss was gone.

I also tried the PVAStrumento with two version (newest and the previous version). This made things much worse on alll files. The audio was sped up and sounded like fast forward.

I tried PVAStrumento to make a PS mpg, as well as Demuxed then remuxing with TMPGEnc using the wizard and the tools (also tried Womble to remux). All resulting mpg's had very fast audio.

I am now going to uninstall then re-install PowerVCRII and only hack for the file size and try again with 640x480 captures.

I realize that this getting long so if there are any other questions or if I can clear something up let me know. Any comments?