ConvertX capture

[nanifra]

Hi all!
I've got a Plextor ConvertX device and it works great!
But how should I capture old VHS tapes?
I'd like to capture and directly burn to the CD, but unfortunately the captured movies have a tremendously high bitrate (2000 Kb is far beyond my needs) and thus I have to re-encode in order to fit a movie onto a single CD.
My goal is to transfer a huge collection of videotapes (1200 or more) to CDs to be played with a standalone Philips DVD-737 DivX-compatible player.
Obviously I don't want artifacts.

Here is the problem: if I capture with MPG4, VirtualDub can't convert because it says that the MP4S codec isn't available (MediaPlayer plays the movie well).
If I capture to DivX format, then VirtualDub accepts the video but not the audio (again, MediaPlayer plays well).
Does anyone know something about this?

[nanifra]

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[Manokat]

Hi all!
I've got a Plextor ConvertX device and it works great!
But how should I capture old VHS tapes?
I'd like to capture and directly burn to the CD, but unfortunately the captured movies have a tremendously high bitrate (2000 Kb is far beyond my needs) and thus I have to re-encode in order to fit a movie onto a single CD.
My goal is to transfer a huge collection of videotapes (1200 or more) to CDs to be played with a standalone Philips DVD-737 DivX-compatible player.
Obviously I don't want artifacts.

Here is the problem: if I capture with MPG4, VirtualDub can't convert because it says that the MP4S codec isn't available (MediaPlayer plays the movie well).
If I capture to DivX format, then VirtualDub accepts the video but not the audio (again, MediaPlayer plays well).
Does anyone know something about this?

Try the VirtualDubMod. There should be no problem with the audio.
As well you can upgrade your Creator2 to have mp3 support. AFAIK VirtualDub (not the Mod version) do not have problem with the audio of Divx (captured by convertx).

[nanifra]

Thanks for the reply!
Unfortunately my computer seems to have something wrong: on each of the two operating systems I have, the conversion produces a file that can't be played neither by the DivX player (the video is good but the sound is totally distorted and noisy) nor by MediaPlayer (the audio is good but the video runs at half speed).
I suspect that some old codec (installed on both systems) causes this malfunction in conversion, because both systems have the same set of installed codecs.

I will try to make a fresh installation ...