ATI Multimedia Capture problems

[El Duderino]

Hooha all,
I was wondering for those of you with the ATI AIW/MMC, which capture settings do you find works best for capture of TV for burning to DVD?
I have tried MP2 capture, but when I play back, it either crashes my system or plays back in a jerky fashion (I know I have a powerful enough system as I have used this same AIW card on my old PC which had much lower specs).
AVI seems to work OK, but I am limited to 38mins capture (despite freeing up 30GB to capture to). DivX codec also causes unsyncing of audio and video and it won't let me configure it either (box greyed out).
I was wondering what settings are best (codecs, interlacing etc...)

My system is as follows;
Celeron 2.0Ghz
512Mb DDR RAM
ATI AIW Radeon 32MB

[ajc53]

I have used MPEG - 2 and map preset at half resolution 352 X 480, 5.52 max and 4.02 avg bit rate , and no soap filters.

It may be tough with only one 40Gig hard drive. Make sure you defrag often and that your drive is set for DMA mode, close all other programs, antivirus etc, and disconnect the internet.

And Read Lordsmurf's guides for ATI captures.

[spiderman2k1]

does the problem happen when you play back with ATI software try PowerDVD. SOme time's you might just have a bad install. I like to use video soap light. I get a little noise in my cable's but if you do not get any noise do not use it.

[indolikaa]

I run MMC 8.1 on an Athlon 1200. I am currently capturing DirecTV as follows:

352 x 480 @ VBR 3500/4000 with 98% Motion Estimate using 1I/2B/2P, and 256 MP2 audio or LPCM. I do not use VideoSoap.

[presto]

I have tried MP2 capture, but when I play back, it either crashes my system or plays back in a jerky fashion (I know I have a powerful enough system as I have used this same AIW card on my old PC which had much lower specs).

You definitely need to troubleshoot that. You should be able to capture and play mpg format. I capture using VCD settings axcept audio is changed to 48 and I use soap. I put 7 hours of TV on a DVD and it looks great.

[bottle-necked]

I don't use ATI's file player. I play my files with Windows Media Player or PowerDVD.

I usually use 720x480, MPEG-2 DVD, 8max, 7avg, 48K 256K, interlaced, record cropped video, 100%, no soap. With that preset my P4-3G runs around 14%-18% CPU load. No problems.

Good luck

[videoholic]

What is the difference in MMC between capturing to 'MPEG2' and 'MPEG2-DVD' formats?

[indolikaa]

What is the difference in MMC between capturing to 'MPEG2' and 'MPEG2-DVD' formats?

MPEG2-DVD provides you access to the 'LPCM Audio' recording option.

It also allows you to properly format a captured VHS tape by cropping out the noise you normally find in the overscan area. You have to select MPEG2-DVD and checkmark the box "Record Cropped Video Setting" to achieve this result.