Best real-time DV to MPEG capturing software?

[edDV]

To tell you the truth I'm suprised you can get quality like that out of a 2.4 Celeron in real time.

The 2.4 Celeron is getting a boost from the DV hardware codec in the ADVC.

I need to see what Video Studio 8 can do coming straight from the ATI AIW and realtime encoding MPeg2. That would put the full load on the CPU.

I could then test that result against ATI's MPeg2 and Beyond TV 3's High quality MPeg2.

Maybe I'll get to it this weekend, maybe not.

[Barnabas]

Right now, I am converting a LD to DVD. I am doing it the "right way". Capped it as an DV avi file, now converting with TMPGenc plus, with 2 pass, and with 30% sharpness. Looks like it will take about 7 hours, as I set it to slow/better motion search. I had converted this one before on my Hauppauge PVR 250, but for some reason, I have never been able to get the color controls set correctly for LD caps, even though I took color bar readings to set the colors. Any ways, to cap and convert this whole LD will take about 9 hours, that's a LONG time!

For projects that are not as important, real-time encoding will do for me. If the blue boy thinks they look like crap, that's fine, he won't have to look at them any ways, but from my tests, while capping to an AVI file does indeed look better, capping in real-time with the speed/quality slider set to 88 looks pretty darn good for real time, and does not run into the transcode buffer problem reported on my 2 GHZ Athlon machine.