Capture Software for VHS to MPEG/AVI

[quantass]

Soryr if this has been asked to death but i just could find the answer. Can you point me to an easy to use capture software taht can capture from a VIDEO IN composite source and Line IN (Creative Soundblaster Line IN) source. Im using a PowerView video capture card WDM drivers are installed. This is a Win2K3 box, P4 2GHZ, 1GB Ram.

We tried using Ulead Visual Studio 6 but it seems to have probs recording sound and there appears to be no compresison codecs and so 5 secs of video capture is like 60MB. There is no alternate codec selection. Im dloading v11 but am not hopeful. I do hjave several codecs installed on the PC

[edDV]

Soryr if this has been asked to death but i just could find the answer. Can you point me to an easy to use capture software taht can capture from a VIDEO IN composite source and Line IN (Creative Soundblaster Line IN) source. Im using a PowerView video capture card WDM drivers are installed. This is a Win2K3 box, P4 2GHZ, 1GB Ram.

We tried using Ulead Visual Studio 6 but it seems to have probs recording sound and there appears to be no compresison codecs and so 5 secs of video capture is like 60MB. There is no alternate codec selection. Im dloading v11 but am not hopeful. I do hjave several codecs installed on the PC

What format do you want to capture to?

VS6 is very old. VS11 should work. A 2GHz P4 is borderline for realtime MPeg2 capture. The more you compress during capture, the more CPU you need. With VS11 or a free program like VirtualdubMod, a common tactic is to capture to uncompressed or huffyuv, edit and then encode non-realtime. A 2.8 GHz or better can realtime capture to MPeg2 at 7000 Kb/s vbr or so. At 4000 Kb/s you may get rebuffers and lost frames.