Converting / Capture Question

[vcd4me]

Hi

I captured a bunch of tapes using my hp laptop with its capture card using window media center ...and they are reorded as mpeg files

So now I have to convert them to make dvd ...what is the fastest program to do this

If there is a way to use this capture card that came with my computer and use a diffrent software that will record to a different format


Thanks
Ed

[hech54]

If there is a way to use this capture card that came with my computer and use a diffrent software that will record to a different format

If your end product is DVD then there is no need to look for alternative capture codecs...DVD is MPEG(2)....it can be nothing else.

[Noahtuck]

All these years and all those post's and you are still cross/double posting ?!?!



https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/335145-Capturing-Program

Hi

I captured a bunch of tapes using my hp laptop with its capture card using window media center ...and they are recorded as mpeg files

Is there is a way to use this capture card that came with my computer and use a different software that will record to a different format

[vcd4me]

If there is a way to use this capture card that came with my computer and use a diffrent software that will record to a different format

If your end product is DVD then there is no need to look for alternative capture codecs...DVD is MPEG(2)....it can be nothing else.

Ok I am new to this but I thougth I had it figured out

I captured it and want to put it onto a dvd ...don't I need to use a software to et it onto teh dvd and doesn't it take a long time or am I missing something

I am looking to capture it then drag drop and burn ...again I am new to this

Thansk
Ed

[hech54]

DVDFlick and DVDStyler will "author" your DVD for free.
1) Capture
2) Author
3) Burn (preferably with ImgBurn)

[vcd4me]

Ok so I am not wrong ....I was just hoping to do this quickeram just looking ...Flick took a long time well over an Hr

[neomaine]

Then what you captured wasn't to DVD mpeg2 spec or you have DVDFlick re-encoding by default. Use Gspot or MediaInfo on your captured file and compare to 'What is DVD' on the left or post it here for a quick review.

What is your capture card? What are your video and audio capture settings?

[vcd4me]

Well here is what i got from mediainfo ...is this correct format

General
Complete name : G:\Transfers\Dance August 1991.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 3.55 GiB
Duration : 58mn 11s
Overall bit rate : 8 731 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 58mn 11s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 8 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.772
Stream size : 3.32 GiB (94%)

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 58mn 11s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -66ms
Stream size : 160 MiB (4%)

[usually_quiet]

I can see one thing that isn't to spec. For an NTSC DVD, the audio can't be MPEG-1 Layer2 when there is only a single audio track.

From VideoHelp's "What is DVD"

Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbps
Up to 8 audio tracks containing DD (Dolby Digital/AC3), DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have DD or PCM Audio.

[themaster1]

Have a look at this topic

[neomaine]

The capture looks fine. (I'd set it to 6000vbr to save space and cut the audio to 192k - unless audio is more important to you - but that's me...) Though not 'spec' per se, I captured tons of OTA, cable and VHS tapes via my ATI AIW using MPEG2 audio. Haven't found a player that wouldn't play it.

So, your back to what heck54 mentioned in post #5:

- Capture (you're fine there...)
- Author (you're basic issue, DVDFlick mentioned, basic and works fine. What you need is something that won't, or that you can tell to not, re-encode.
- Burn (Take the AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS from the Author step and burn to DVD. Use ImgBurn, nothing else...)

[usually_quiet]

The capture looks fine. (I'd set it to 6000vbr to save space and cut the audio to 192k - unless audio is more important to you - but that's me...) Though not 'spec' per se, I captured tons of OTA, cable and VHS tapes via my ATI AIW using MPEG2 audio. Haven't found a player that wouldn't play it.

So, your back to what heck54 mentioned in post #5:

- Capture (you're fine there...)
- Author (you're basic issue, DVDFlick mentioned, basic and works fine. What you need is something that won't, or that you can tell to not, re-encode.
- Burn (Take the AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS from the Author step and burn to DVD. Use ImgBurn, nothing else...)

The problem isn't that DVD players in general won't play MPEG-2 audio with NTSC video. The problem is that some authoring programs could insist on re-encoding the audio to conform to the spec. I don't know if DVDFlick does that or not.

[neomaine]

Gotcha... No problem.

I used to use DVD MovieFactory 2(?) at the time. It had presets that it would re-encode to but also let you setup a custom profile. I would setup a profile with my specs then use that profile to import the capture. Oddly, it was a seperate setting to tell it to ignore (i.e. not re-encode) captures that matched the profile being used.