What fomat should I use??

[mymxv]

Hello all,

I'm a newbie to this stuff, so please go easy on me. I just installed a WinTV capture card and WinVCR software for real time mpeg2 encoding. Overall, I'm happy with the quality for making VCD and SVCD. My question is with the format. WinVCR offers 7 different format to choose from, but not all is supported. I manage to get 4 to work with my setup.

24-bit
YUV2
YUV9
YUv12

My question is which format will give me the best picture quaility when capturing to Mpeg1 and Mpeg2. I don't have any problems with frames dropping or voice not synching up.

This is my setup
AMD 1.33Mhz 266FSB
45gig IBM 7200 ATA100
256meg PC-133
Geforce 32meg MX-400

Thanks in advance

[Sefy]

I think, i'm not the expert here for sure, but I think 24bit will give you the highest quality, although I know alot of people use either YUV9 or YUV12, but that's usually for AVI captures, and i've not seen anyone using YUV2, when I capture AVI I usually also use YUV9 or 12, but for direct MPG captures, i've always select 24bit.