RealTime cap, codec & setting advice? what do u use?

[geniv]

I plan on capturing movies to fit a single CD. (ranges from 90 min to 2hours). I just want to cap directly in realtime and record to CD I don't want to go through any hassle with virtual dub reencoding or tmpenc encoding.

so far I narrow it down to two codec that let me do that "Windows Video 7" with Windows Media Encoder
and "DivX 4.11" with VirtualDub.

my target resolution will be 352x240 and 64k audio. video bitrate will range from 368k (for shows) to 800k (for movies )

anyway I was able to cap a test movie 80min long with WinMediaEncoder7 in real time and video quality wise seems to be better than MPEG1 at similiar bitrate also there's no a/v sync issue

now with VirtualDub is there a way to cap in divx with audio compression on at the same time so I dont' have to reencode the audio afterward?

if any know any alternative to what I"m using that will get me better quality video in realtime and similiar bitrate?

thanks in advance for your help.

btw: I use composite video in for my capture card. is there any quality diffrence if I switch to S-Video? (is s-video PAL?)

[Torontonian]

It you don't plan to watch your CD on a standalone VCD/DVD player then capture with DivX on the fly. So far it's the best solution I believe.

S-video is another video-in jack which provides better quality than composite one.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Torontonian on 2001-11-28 09:43:01 ]</font>

[geniv]

I don't plan to watch it on my dvd player (my DVD player cant' read CDR . will watch it on my pc.

I'm thinking is there a way to capture to divx and capture to mp3 or wma audio directly as oppose to capture to PCM and the reencoding?

according to the DivX capture guide with virtual dub you have to capture to PCM or there will be a/v sync problems..

anyway I can't even encode audio to wma or mp3 directly with the video. vdub give me some kind of errors