TV Wonder VE

[dcapp1]

I am planning on backing up my video tape collection and putting them on cd,s to play in my dvd player. By using the TV Wonder VE capture card and Virtual Dub, will I lose any quality if any if I capture to avi and then encode to mpeg? Thanks

[bde]

You'll only experience quality loss if you capture directly to Divx. I also have the ATI TV WONDER VE... I've found that using the latest ATI BETA drivers, Also known as v7.6, (The multimedia center software). These new drivers seem to help fix many bugs that prevented the card from capturing in virtual dub. If you have a big enough hard drive (IE: 20GB's free), you should use the Huffyvu codec, as this will provide lossless compression, and the quality will be just as good as the source footage. If you want to use anything other than Huffyvu, such as Divx, then you will experience tremendous losses, as Divx is not for direct capturing. Believe me, I've tried, and failed with all results, ranging from dropped frames to out-of-synch sound problems. It's not worth capturing directly to divx. I do, however recommand captuing to an MJPEG codec, such as Huffyvu. This will provide the greatest quality, but the largest file size.

[OptimusPrime22]

Are you using the drivers for WinXP or ME? I have the Windows ME OS and I just downloaded the latest drivers to test out. I hope it lets the card work in V-Dub.

[dcapp1]

Iam using the Windows ME operating system. Also to bde: What if I use the PicVideo codec mentioned in the guide on how to capture and convert to vcd? My hardrive only has about 10gigs free.