TV capture to CD

[soulandy]

Hi, this is my first post in here so forgive me if this has been covered before. I want to know how to put TV progs on to CD/DVD. I can record direct to my pc through the tv card but then I want to be able to put the tv prog on to a cd/dvd so that it will play on a stand alone dvd player. What is the best software to use or is it possible to record straight on to the media? I have the ati all-in-wonder 9800 sieres, windows media 10, nero express 6
Cheers

[mats.hogberg]

What do you capture to? (File format)
Best would be to capture to VCD/SVCD specs mpg for VCD/SVCD (CD formats) or DVD specs mpg2 for DVD.
Other option is to capture as AVI (lossless codec like huffyuv) then encode the captured AVI to one of the mpg formats mentioned earlier. (Lots of guides on AVI to VCD/SVCD/DVD under how to, left)

/Mats

[soulandy]

its on ATI file player. I'll have a look at the options that you pointed out. Cheers

[mats.hogberg]

There are others more experienced with ATI captures here than me - I'm blessed with Hauppage that "only" captures to mpg -> no conversion needed between capture and author. AFAIK, ATI card s are capable of this too, but how well depends to some degree on your computer.
If the file you've captured ends in ".avi", follow the AVI to (S)VCD/DVD guides left. If it ends in ".mpg", go directly to Author guides.

/Mats

[whitejremiah]

Hauppage actually have hardware encoders built into them from what i understand, whereas ATI does not, your best of with an ati at least, to capture to avi...the quality generally ends up a LOT cleaner and a lot less pixilated, and the output doesnt chew up a bunch of CPU power....the downside to this, however, is going to avi is generally a HUGE differance in filesize (lossless, not even completely uncompressed video at dvd resolution can be in the area of like 25-30gb per hour or so) my suggestion though, would be to capture using a program such as virtualdub, it generally spits out a much higher quality file...and use huffyuv if you have a bunch of harddrive space, or an mjpg codec if you dont and set it around 90-95% quality....that will cut down on your needed harddrive space quite a bit at a slight loss of quality.