I have a Winfast TV 2000 XP card using the software that came with it. The documentation with it is sketchy. I would like to record a TV show so that I can burn it to a DVD and then watch it on my standalone DVD player. I tried one yesterday (not using Directburn) but the result was a large mpeg file that won't open with PowerDVD on my pc so there's no point in burning it to a DVD.
How do I correctly set up the software to record so that I end up with Audio_TS and Video_TS files that I can create a watchable DVD from? Also should I stick with the stock software or is there something better to use?
Tia for any help and advice.
Gary
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Hello Gary,
I'm using the same Winfast card as you have. To record a TV show, I do the following (I live in europe, so the system is PAL not NTSC, but that doesn't matter a lot)
1. take the DVD PAL or NTSC template, make a copy of it and rename it
2. set the resolution to 720x576 for PAL or 720x480 for NTSC
3. check the audio settings : mpeg layer II 224 or 384 kbits
4. increase the bitrate to 8000Kbits
5. save it
It's important to start with the DVD template, so you'll end up with a fully DVD compliant template
When recording with this template, you get an MPEG2 file of fairly good video quality.
To make a DVD from this, you need an authoring software, like DVD Moviefactory from ULEAD or DVD author from Pegasys inc (downloadable from this site). Both burn directly to DVD.
If quality is an important issue for you, then you'll have to record in AVI DV format, encode it into MPEG2, author the Mpeg2 file to DVD.
The AVI DV template provided with Winfast is very bad, you'll need to create a better one. Download the Panasonic DV codec available on this site, install it, it will be available to winfast.
Then do the following:
1. load the uncompressed AVI template, copy it and rename it to "AVI Panasonic DV" for example.
2. in the codec list choose "Panasonic DV"
3. set the capture resolution to 720x576 for PAL or 720x480 for NTSC
4. for the audio, choose PCM and in settings choose DVD quality 48Khz, 224kbits
5. save it
When recording, minimize the winfast window!!! Since this template uses a lot of processsing power, a 100% processor load might yield to frames being dropped, minimized its consumption is reduced by 15%!
After recording you get an AVI file : caution for 1 hour of video it requires 13GB of harddisk space!!!!
To make a DVD from this, you need to encode this AVI into an MPEG 2 file; the best free soft for this is Tmpg encoder from Pegasys, it provides excellent video quality and is easy to use.
Once you get the MPEG2 file you have to author it for DVD as mentionned above.
Hope this helped you somehow
Best regards
jacky serpentiBe yourself and be happy in what you do -
Capture a mpeg2 file and then use the Ulead Video 7 software that came with your card to author and burn your DVD. It will allow you to set up a simple menu and chapter points plus you can cut out the commercials on the program you record.
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Hi Jacky,
Thanks again for your suggestions about my Winfast settings for creating a DVD. Just want to clarify a couple of points:
When you say to increase the data rate to 6000 do you mean the "target data rate?"
Also the video quality is set at 600. Is that ok?
Also I have been using TMPGenc DVD Author to make a few trial DVDs. The sound has been out of synch. Any suggestions there?
Gary -
I have both and ATI AIW Pro and A Winfast card. The synch problems you are seeing is probably because the Winfast card is software based. I have the same problems on a high end computer but I do not have these issues with my AIW becasue it is partially hardware based.
To get a good cap with the Winfast card I have to capture in uncompressed AVI then re-encode with TMPEnc to get a dvd compliant file. Which is not a real big deal except those uncompressed file take up wayyyyy to much space. so I can only do so many. Where as with the AIW I can go right to mpeg2 with no synch issues and it is a much smaller file size. -
Hello Gary,
Yes indeed, 8000 kbits is the target data rate; also set the video quality slider to 1000 (its maximum).
For high quality recordings, I always use the AVI Panasonic DV template, it provides me with an excellent AVI file. The just need to encode it with Tmpgenc.
Now the out of synch issue, as far as my personal experience goes, systematically when an authoring software re-encodes the video, the resulting DVD will likely be out of synch.
I'm not a guru on this topic, but I think it's due to the fact how the re-encoding is done. But as long as you feed these auhtoring softwares with DVD compliant files (for video Mpeg2 at constant or variable bitrate within the 9.6Mbps limit, for audio Mpeg1-layer2 48Khz from 64 to 384kbps[usually 192 or 224]; Mpeg2 48khz from 64 to 912kbps; PCM 48 or 96 khz in 16, 20 or 24 bits).
So if the files are DVD compliant, re-encoding is not required. Again I experienced that when the audio is not sampled at 48khz (44,1khz instead), I use to have out of synch issues.
Stick to the standards!! That's what I do now, and my DVD's are fine whether they come from an Mpeg file created with Winfast or from an encoded AVI DV file.
Hope this helped you out of trouble!!!!
jackyBe yourself and be happy in what you do
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