how do i capture MPEG2???

[alucard2050]

i use IUVCR to capture and in the list of codecs i usually select Huffyuv to capture...but, i want to try to capture and convert to an MPEG2 clip but what codec do i use? i have tried MMC but i can't get a resolution higher than ___x240...i can't use it to capture 480...anyway, usually its Huffyuv then i encode with TMPGE but i'd like to convert in the process of capturing...can it be done? is there better capture software that will capture both fields into an Mpeg2 clip without re-encoding for a SVCD? THANKS....................

[gll99]

Try the demo by Intervideo, WINCODER or Cyberlink's PowerVCR II.
They both capture Mpeg1 and Mpeg2.

The codecs available in iUVCR are for avi compression.

[pijetro]

Hey man, I wonder about all this mpeg capturing business. Can someone shed some light on it?
I mean, you know that Tmpgenc can take a long time to encode to an .mpg file (depending on the system of course). If it takes an hour to ten hours to encode, how in the heck can these software solutions convert to .mpg as you capture on the fly?
There has got to be some give and take with quality vs. speed.
Sorry.
Didn't mean to steel the post.

[tomreedtoon]

pijetro asked a reasonable question:

I mean, you know that Tmpgenc can take a long time to encode to an .mpg file (depending on the system of course). If it takes an hour to ten hours to encode, how in the heck can these software solutions convert to .mpg as you capture on the fly?
There has got to be some give and take with quality vs. speed.

And, indeed, there is! When I used the solution by modeler_us to make captures, I did okay...but I had a fairly fast machine (1000 mHz Athlon with 266 mHz front-side bus) and I found the resulting MPEG 2 file was impossible to cut accurately. I suspect the encoding is one-pass, meaning it wasn't optimized to the max, and this is why I couldn't get a 50 minute show on one 700 MB CD.

I will only be able to buy a DVD writer when I can afford my second Maserati, so I'll be stuck with CD's for a real long time. But for ease and simplicity, I'll give it to modeler. (I'm currently trying to figure out how to encode AVI files to an MPEG2 that will make SVCD's with some reasonable quality.)

[lpn1160]

best bets for mpeg-2 capturing is with an mpeg-2 capture card or device, like wintv2000, or something similar! $200 US they will set you back

[Bel]

I've been using PowerVcr II with excellent results. I've been using it to back up VHS tapes, capture directly to mpeg2 dvd resolution at 8000 bits and it looks amazing. I usually run it through tmpgenc anyways with a 2 pass vbr to shrink the file down, and have gotten excellent results.

Frankly, it looks better then anything I've gotten out of virtuadub, but I haven't played with it too much as I am very pleased with the results I get from PowerVcr.