DV capture on Win98/Me?

[Anonymous65]

Does anybody capture long DV files on a Win98/Me PC (by long I mean over 4 gig files) and feed the file directly to Tmpgenc for making VCD or SVCD's?
What capture software do you use? Does Tmpgenc read DV files? or do I need to frameserve?
I'm looking into capturing DV files and simply trimming the ends before/during conversion to VCD/SVCD, no editing or fancy effects like in Premiere, just a simple capture, cut and convert!
Or should I just dump WinMe and install (Xp) or Win2K with a large NTFS partition for saving the large DV files? Please let me know what is working for you...

[1newbee]

Hello Skittelsen,

I'm no expert (member Name). I hardly ever get help because some of the pros often get fed up or bored of the same questions. So allow me to give you a hand. First of all, 4 gigs is a lot. I capture using Smartripper, followed by AVI for a frameserver and as I am writing you I am streaming digital audio with a 480 x 480 SVCD NTSC format using Tmpgenc. I do not do any editing other than cutting the DV file to fit on 2 SVCD's. This is a pretty basic method for me because I don't want to sit on my a__ all day. I don't know why you would want to save 4 gigs of DV on your HD. Convert it, author it and delete it. Good luck!

[Anonymous65]

Howdy,
I want to capture 1 hour of (analog) Star Trek in DV or a 2 hour movie (analog) in DV (14 and 28 gigs of data) and then convert them down to VCD or SVCD. The goal is to make a VCD or SVCD of commerical quality. Currently, I'm using the PV231 for making VCD's, and nothing will surpas it in quality other than a 720x480 capture and downconvert it in software. Since I don't want any dropped frames or sound sync problems, I would use an analog to DV converter (Sony or Osprey) and not a video capture card.

[k5oz]

skittelsen:

I use ScenalyzerLive. This program captures AVI files from IEEE-1394 DV camcorders into multiple files (4gigs each, with uninterrupted video). I then use AVIsynth to frame serve the files to TMPGenc. Go to this website for demo of ScenalyerLive.

www.scenalyzer.com

Dave

[Anonymous65]

OK, that should work in WinMe...
Anybody had any experience with Win2K and NTFS?

[TheInformer]

Skittelsen,

I have to agree with k5oz. ScenalyzerLive is the stuff

As for NTFS, I have set up my system as a dual boot with Win98SE and WinXP. I used DVIO (this was before I bought ScenalyzerLive) in concert with my Sony DVMC-DA1 to capture the movie "When Worlds Collide" to DV format. The resulting file was 16 gigs or so. I then tried using TMPGenc to encode to VCD format, but the time to do this seemed extremely long (I forget how long exactly). Vegas Video v3.0 did the trick. It's quality wasn't as good as TMPGEncs I'm sure, but the rendering times were far less. The resulting MPEG-1 files were amazingly good!

I'm holding off on doing another encode like that until I get my new motherboard and modem in. Once the system is re-setup, another attempt at large DV --> MPEG via TMPGenc will be done.