Hi. I recently bought a PC and used an old WinTV PCI card, owned from Football World Cup 2000.

I am using NeroVision Express 3 and I would like to capture live tv. My question is how can I achieve relatively good picture quality without having to capture TV at DVD quality.

The NeroVision Express 3 recognizes the following codecs:

Video codecs:
Cinepack codec by radius
Intel 4:2:0 video V2.50
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1

Audio codecs:
Windows Media Audio V2
Windows Media Audio V1
PCM
MP3
Microsoft G.723.1
Microsoft ADPCM
IMA ADPCM
GSM 6.10
DSP True Speech
CCIT u-Law & A-Law

I don't want to use a codec pack but I prefer minimum sound quality (mono) and average picture quality e.g. .avi (about 380 * 280 pixels)

Would appreciate advises regarding any codecs I should use (like XVID for example)

Also my PC is OEM as follows. I list this because my Graphics card has tv input, including S-Video, but without tried it, I believe the graphics card cannot match the WinTV 200 card. Do you recommend that is better to capture directly from graphics card.

[CASE] UNITECH CASE MIDI C8015UN BLACK 350W
[M/B] ASUS ASUS K8V -DELUXE S/R/G/F
[CPU] AMD AMD XP 3200+ 64 SOCKET 754 BOX
[RAM] 2x KINGSTON SIMM DDR kingston 512MB 400
[VGA] ASUS ASUS 9570TD 256MB FX5700 TD
[FDD] NEC FDD 1.44 MB BLACK

EDIT: I also own the full version of "Video Edit Magic 4". Is it better in capturing than "NeroVision Express 3"?

Thanks & regards