Capture in MPEG2

[roglopes]

Dear friends.
I've PixelView PlayTV HD, and I wanto capture just in MPEG2 format.
What the software I do this (capture just in MPEG2)?
Thanks and sorry about my bad english.

[SHS]

HDTV is MPEG2 know as transport structure at very high-resolution transport and elementary streams bitrate usely higher then 12MBit/sec to as high 22MBit/sec depend on boardcaster so you need soft convert the file over good lucky.

[Blackmore]

I used to capture with a play tv pro card, and I couldn't capture to mpg with the original software, only avi. I encoded the capture to mpg1/2 after.
Later I learn that I could get mpeg1 capture with ulead dvd workshop, but couldn' capture mpeg2.

Maybe your play tv hd card can do it with ulead dvd workshop.

Sorry, but I'm a newbie and didn't understand a word of what shs replied...

[james_ba]

If your pixelview has WDM drivers, you can capture MPEG-2 with Nero Vision Express 2 (including scheduler) or with Ulead Video Studio 7 (or Main Actor EVE, which apparently is the software used in Ulead Video Studio 7), but the latter without scheduler (i.e. you have to start the capture, can set only duration of capture).

I just saw also a capture software from honestech, which, however, cannot capture in DVD formats (max is 640x480).

Ulead / Main Actor seem to give good results, I did not realize any frame drop. Nero video quality is lower, and I experience ratehr heavy frame drops starting in the tenth minute of capture (don't know why - maybe somebody can explain this to me!).

Intervideo also states to have MPEG2 capture in their WinDVR 3, I have not tried that.

I am very much in a tryout state, so any good news about scheduled TV capture in DVD format and good quality is welcomed!