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[harley2ride]

I have been fighting with trying to get just 1 VHS to DVD now for three weeks straight. I have medion 2.6ghz, 1mg ram, ti4200 with WDM capture, Audigy 2, etc... My PC came with Power VCR II and Power Director. Captures ok, but then dies when trying to burn, or can't locate any of my drives. Then tried Vegas Video. Captures great and can hear sound while capturing, but when you play it back, no sound. Checked all forums, tried various settings, still wont work. Then tried Ulead Video Studio. Same problems. Can capture with sound, but wont play sound back. Tried capturing with VirtualVCR. Captures fine. Only option when I go to save file is as a .VCR file, and I can't find a @%#@ thing that will read that. This should not be this difficult. Can't anybody come up with one or two programs that will do all of this stuff with some consistency. You shouldn't have to use 10 different programs and download codecs from all over, just to record one @#%$ movie with sound. Oh, and one of my problems with using Power VCR II, (which by the way, was the only program that recorded video with sound that I could play back), is that the sound track is off (on only a 23 minute video), and I can't find any options to get it back on. Also tried Sonic MYDVD, and it records my VHS in black and white. Any help would sure be appreciated. I'm ready to throw all of this crap away, and buy a vhs to dvd recorder.

[macleod]

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll! Part of your problem is that powervcrII (I believe) does not record audio to the DVD standard of 48 mhz, but rather to 44.1. You probabably do not want to use powervcrII for capturing to DVD.

Capturing using a capture card is full of issues. It is not easy (regardless of what the kids at Best Buy tell people). You might want to review information on lordsmurf's website and see if you have the basics down before you start trying to capture.

The question you want to ask yourself is "do you want to spend countless days and nights learning how to do all of this?" If the answer is yes, then I would suggest reading a lot of information on this site regarding capturing. If not, purchase a dvd recorder (ebay has them in the sub $300 range). I have done both and I can easily say that hardware capturing is a hell of a lot easier than software captures.

That short answer from what I gathered from your post is that you have a number of configuration issues on the different applications that you are using to capture your video. If you want to go the software route, pick one of the capturing solutions that you have and "we" can start the troubleshooting process.

one quick question would be "are you capturing to a non "c" drive"? The reason I ask this is that MANY times, people will capture to their "C" drive, which also runs their OS and other applications (that they are usually running at the same time). Some say they capture fine, others have problems. Also, when was your last defrag?

[harley2ride]

Believe me, I did spend weeks reading this forum, the doom forum, and other articles. I tried over a dozen different programs to capture/edit. Finally, after reading a lot about the Pyro A/V link, I decided to give one a try. In less than an hour, (including hooking up the pyro and installing the software), I had my VHS movie saved, edited, and almost ready to burn. The sound track is present, and matches the lip movement on the screen. Say AMEN!!! Must be some sort of driver/codec/device issue with my Ti4200 and all of the different softwares I was trying to use.
Anyway, I am extremely pleased with the results from the PYRO. Video is cleaner, better colors, better sound quality, and it took much less time. And I can still take the saved mpeg and edit it in Vegas Video if I need to.
And, when I saved it, it only took about 20 minutes to encode....

[tim6661234]

I had this problem (Video but no audio even thought I could hear it when I captured)

Found the following.

When you connect the audio it is passed through to the speakers, the level is controlled by the volume controls.

When recording it only records from the line that is selected.

In the volume control goto Options -> Properties
Select Record and make sure the line your using is ticked at the bottom of the screen. This will show you the record options. Under each line is a select tick box. Select the on your using and it should record too.

Be aware that my system kept reverting the select option back to a different line so its worth checking each time.

[harley2ride]

Solved the majority of my problems by purchasing Pyro AV Link, and using Ulead Studio 7 for entire project. Great video, sound is in sync, and plays well with most stuff. Only problem now, is that I don't get audio when I play it back on some DVD players. It plays back using my Surround sound system, but won't play to TV Audio. Won't play on neighbors DVD with audio, but works great on my Dad's Apex DVD player.

[Schmendrick]

The audio problem might be caused by the fact that some older NTSC-DVD-player to my knowledge are only able to decode AC3 (Dolby Digital) and LPCM-audio but no MPEG-audio. Now if you feed the audio through a digital output to a surround sound system the latter might be able to decode MPEG-audio in contrast to your TV-audio output and your neighbors DVD-player. Therefore if you have enough file space left the easiest will be to convert the audio track of your video to plain WAV-PCM. Sonics MyDVD then will produce a DVD with LPCM-audio track. This will significantly increase the file size. Like on an audio-CD 80 minutes of audio will require 700 MB as compared to only about 1/6 to 1/10 in either MPEG-audio or AC3-audio.

The other option could be that you convert the audio-track to AC3. Here the problem is that freeware AC3-encoder have some compatibility issues, but for some DVD-authoring programs you can purchase an AC3-encoder-function at a modest surcharge, as far as I know.

Good luck in your quest!

CU

Schmendrick

[harley2ride]

Thanks. I do have AC/3 abilities, and I will give that a shot on my next burn, and see what happens.