Anybody use PowerVCR II for mpeg encoding?

[vetski179]

Was interested in their product for burning vcd's of tv shows, when I came across their real time mpeg encoding feature. They say you can download from a camcorder, and convert in real time to your choice of mpeg 1 or 2. This is a plus for me if it works, as I'm currently making home movies from my Sony trv 900, downloading from the 900 to hard drive, converting to mpeg2 using TMPGEnc, then burning to SVCD with Nero 5.5. To be able to do this in real time would be a huge time saving, as well as space saving operation, provided the encoding was quality. Your opinions on this will be appreciated-

[EricB]

I believe they have a free trial, why not give it a shot?

I tried it with a DV source, and could not get sound to record no matter what I did. I also tried encoding off line an existing DV file (which had sound) and the resulting mpeg had no sound.

Picture quality seemed pretty good for real-time, but not nearly as good as DV-> TMPGenc -> mpeg1/2.