Best settings for capturing TV Episodes

[LiqdNight]

Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best setting for tv episodes in capturing. I would like to be able to get 2 episodes of Star Trek voyager on 1 vcd or whatever format would be best. I have an Ati all in wonder Raedeon AGP ddr vid card. Episodes are taped in SLP mode from the tv.

thakns in advance for anyone who can give me some advice!

[Operationz]

I've got a tv wonder w/video capture and this is how I capture: use powervcr 3 (since ATI's software package sucks) 720 X 480, mpeg 2, 29.97, 224 audio. once I convert to svcd, I can get one trek episode per disk, using CBR of 2300.
if you're looking to get 2 episodes on 1 vcd, you'd better do some heavy editing! ds9 generally runs about 42 mins after commercials are cut, and voy around 42-43. tng and ent usually gets 40 mins or so.
also, your eps are gonna look like shit coming from vhs taped in SLP mode! just thought I'd warn you

[LiqdNight]

thanks for the info, yes its not going to be best quality to get 2 episodes on 1 cd, just trying to save cds! got a website for powervcr.. like is there a demo of it?

i've recorded a few episodes straigh into vcd using ati software, from my slp mod tapes, and there decent quality. was just looking for maybe a better way to do it and maybe be able to fit 2 episodes on one cd but guess not.

[Mdanner423]

If you have a capture card, why dont you just record to your computer for better quality?

Also, CDrs are so very cheap now, i buy mine at Office Max, 100 , 80 minutes cdrs for 24 bucks, voyager is about 180 eps right? So thats less then 50 bucks for a television series! If you wanted 180 eps on VHS it would be sooo much more expensive!
Yeah Yeah, I am a huge trekkie and doing the same thing exept im waiting for my dazzle DVC II to come in now... I will have it in time to record next weeks enterprise, which looks so funny!

If I were you i would spend the 50 bucks since it is going to take you so much time to do this and use higher quality buy recording it to your computer instead of slp! SLP is horrible man, i recorded that once and there were like weird colors in some parts of DS9 and the sound was going crazy. up and down, up and down in pitch occasionally...

Matthew

[LiqdNight]

The thing is I don't have cable and my reception is really bad quality, and so by recording on the comp using card woudln't get me any better quality. and second of all its usually on late at night here, and I tried using ati's scheduler to record programs but it never works right! and if I do that I get commercials which I can't take out cause the audio all gets out of sync. I have only a 30gb hd for all my stuff so I see no way of recording to avi or something like that.