WinTV video capture size is too large

[sitlet]

i know this question already has probably been asked a lot, but when i try to capture video from my vcr to my computer, the capture card captures it in avi format which takes up 700mb per minute. i have about an hour of footage that i would like to capture and then edit but i dont know how. my hard drive has about 20gb free but that only gives me about 25 mins of video. is there any program that will capture directly to mpeg or something so that it takes up less space.

thanks

[SHS]

why download the free nanoDVR 1.1.12 Special Edition for Hauppauge WinTV or WinTV-PVR only PCI cards.
http://registration.hauppauge.com/hauppauge/download.asp?

[Shabubu]

I don't know... why
Also, the link doesn't work, and it's not listed on the software page.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Shabubu on 2001-11-20 22:29:22 ]</font>

[dirk67]

Use VirtualDub and the Huffyuv codec. If you capture at 352x576 (NTSC 352x480), you get 300 MB per minute. Then frameserve with VirtualDub with the filters dynamic noise reduction, smart deinterlace, resize precise bicubic to 352x288 (NTSC 352x240). Use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG1. That's what I do.

[dirk67]

http://www.hauppauge.de/nanodvr.htm

[sitlet]

ok thanks guys
i just downloaded nanoDVR and it works a lot better!