Need advice on TV capture.

[algae]

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

[tweedledee]

I use power VCR to save the capture to mpeg2. Then you could use TMPG author to prepare it for burning. There are other programs that could do the job.

look at this guide
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=455&howtoselect=3;6#455

[bibi]

hey I have the same capture card

Ya you can use the capture software that came with the card or use something else.

I like to use WinDVD Recorder:
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=142&howtoselect=9;50#142

Then I author the DVD with TMPGEnc DVD Author.