Best codec to use when capturing TV

[CorpX]

I like to tape football games from tv and they usually run 3 hours or so.

I have a winfast tv2000 deluxe and use the winfast pvr

i can allocate ~10GB/game, so what codec would allow me to capture at the optimal quality?

thanks

[Richard_G]

3 Hours, 10 GB? So what's wrong with DVD compliant mpeg2?

By the way, you've got confused somewhere along the line, a football match only lasts 90 minutes, 45 each way.......

[CorpX]

football as in american football, which is 15 mts x 4 qtrs

except the clock stops a lot, so it's easily a good 3 hours.

[CorpX]

i tried mpeg2 to record, but it screwed up the audio whenever it split the files.

i guess i'll try it w/o splitting files and make a big 10gb file.