Please Help! Problem with I bought this EZMaker PCI Card

[PirataChingon]

I bought this EZMaker PCI Capture card the software was included... this is my first time working with capture cards... the installation was easy... I can also capture video and audio from my 8mm camcorder but after burning the final mpeg2 or dvd-video file to my dvd-r media and play it on my dvd.. the video and audio are going in a fast forward motion.. I have tried to change it to lower quality or video format like mpeg1 and vcd and it does the same.. I also tried another software in this case Nero Capture and it acts the same way..

Is there a solution for this or do I have to get a better computer?

Please email me to: pazzi1@hotmail.com

[BrainStorm69]

It sounds like your frame rate is way off. Is there a way in your software to control this? For NTSC the frame rate should be 29.97 fps. I think it's 25 for PAL.

If your software has no way to adjust this, then I'd try using VirtualVCR, which does (and is free). I use it with the DVD EZMaker and it works just fine.

[PirataChingon]

can I still use this program to transfer all my vcr and camcorder movies to DVD?

I noticed that this Virtual VCR uses .AVI.

Thanks for the help.

[Bob W]

The software you got was NeoDVD Standard, right? Anyway in the software for playback to a DVD player set the 'format" to DVD-Video and when you press on the 'Make Disc: button make sure you have the format viewable option set to USA_NTSC and not just NTSC.

[DVD_Ripper]

So the video looks good after you capture (on the computer)... but when rendered to MPEG it gets hosed.

Are you capturing to AVI or does the card have a MPEG encoder built in?

If MPEG then your authoring software should have a switch to not encode compliant MPEG's .

[PirataChingon]

BobW

yes thats the software that came with the capture card.. I do leave it at NTSC I will try the USA_NTSC to see if that fixes the problem..

DVD_Ripper.. I think it does have NTSC encoding.. I have several options to choose from this software.. MPEG1/MPEG2/DVD_Video and VCD.
and No.. actually when I see the MPEG2 after its done capturing the video look the same way (fast) as my dvd... when capturing the video skips I dont know if that its called frame drop and the audio sounds normal.

Bobw.. do you think by selecting USA_NTSC might fix that problem.. did you had the same problem?

Thanks for all.

[Bob W]

I don't do captures anymore since I bought a DVD recorder but I still use NeoDVD all the time (I use the upgraded version or NeoDVD Plus). I had similar sync problems until I discovered the USA-NTSC option so give that a try.

Also there is an update to NeoDVD Standard that "Improved audio/video sync during live capture" and you can get that here.........
http://www.mediostream.com/support/updates.html

[housepig]

I use the Aver EZ DVDMaker card, but I use iuVCR to capture to .avi, and TMPGenc to encode to mpeg-2 for dvd.

I tried using NeoDVD, but

- the quality wasn't as good as capping to avi and encoding after the fact;
- the audio/video sync wasn't as tight;
- the audio options were nonexistent;
- bitrate control is primitive;
- the authoring component was limited;
- and the mpeg-2 files it produced couldn't be imported into any of the other authoring softwares that I tried.

[PirataChingon]

Well after trying everything.. I was not able to make it work..... its still the same even with Virtual VCR... after capturing the video goes faster than the audio or both run like in a fast forward motion...

I am trowing the towel.. I think its my computer............ I have a PIII 500 512 Ram..... I will have to wait untill I have something better than this.. the strange thing is that I can see the image being capture and everything.. but its runing in a fast forward motion.. I will try to install it in one of my computers at work.

[BrainStorm69]

Did you try setting the frame rate to 29.97 on the video tab and checking the check box and setting the radio button for resampling audio dynamically on the A/V sync tab?

[PirataChingon]

in what software now.. cuz now I have like 3 capture software install....... can you give me a detail explanation.. sorry I am a rockie on this.... Thanks for the help.

[BrainStorm69]

VirtualVCR....I'll attach a couple of pics to help...