AVI-IO capturing

[spooky]

I am wondering how others do with the AVI_IO capturing
Since the version only supports PCM audio to fit a 2hr movie on a cd I really have to drop the quality of video.
Any suggestions?
Also, it seems to crash on XP Pro everytime I close it
Any ideas?
Thanx

[Mr-bojangles]

AVI-IO only supports PCM audio it is true, but if you are trying to
fit a 2hour movie on a 700MB CD using PCM at 16bit stereo @ 22khz,
you won't have much left for Video:

2bytes * 2channels * 22khz * 2hours * 3600sec/hour = 618MB
(if i've done my math right :)

You would definetly want to compress your audio.
You can of course load your captured files into VirtualDub and convert
only the audio to MP3 (or whatever) without quality loss (direct stream copy the video).

To save time you can also capture directly in VirtualDub to DIVX
and MP3 (or whatever) if your comptuer is fast enough.

I personally like the timer functions of AVI-IO (albeit limited) to capture my sat dish stuff unattended, so I do this very thing.

Hope this helps.

[spooky]

Thanx for your reply
The problem I am having is with the VitualDub droping frames like crazy, I am trying to capture to Divx for video & Mp3 for audio.

I do not understand why.

Thanx