Converting 12MBit PVA File to VCD format - How can I do it.

[Latexcat]

Hy there,

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI card. The quality when capturing with SVCD or VCD is really bad. So i thought "Why not capture in the highest possible mode (12 MBIT MPEG2) and then convert it down to VCD or SVCD. Ok, capturing in the high rates still makes problems with that card (ugly driver support for WinXP) but I think they will solve it in the next few months
But I think the quality is acceptable. But how can I work with the resulting file?
I know that this is not MPEG2 format. It's a PVA format instead. I can now convert it to MPEG2 without a big quality loss. So - now I have a huge MPEG2 stream but I can't work with it. TMPEnc crashed when I try to feed this file to it. So - what can I use to work with it?

Any sugestions?

I want to cut the commercials out and the convert it down to VCD format (or SVCD)

Thanx for the help

Cat

[omoses]

I had the same problem using a Hauppauge win TV Nova. I tried a lot, and then i found a solution: I load the MPEG-Stream into dvd2avi (it doesn't officially support this, only VOB-files..., just open the program and drop the MPEG onto the window), and create a d2v-file (takes a couple of minutes). This can be used in tmpg without problems. You just have to load the audio-part separately into tmpg.

[Peter]

I capture satellite streams which are also pva format. I use pvastrumento to convert the pva stream to a mpeg stream, this is without losing quality and pvastrumento even corrects stream errors (freeware - http://www.offeryn.com/). Then I use DVD2AVI to make a .d2v file and a .mp2 file. These files can be used in TMPGenc without poblems. You can make perfect (S)VCDs this way.

[Latexcat]

OK, the way is clear now Works fine

Thanx

What regular extensions do the PVA files have?

Only thing I have to do now is to get that ******* Hauppauge card working right (It drops frames )

Greetings

Cat