Best DC10 plus capture scheme to speed up MPEG2 encoding ???

[tvtuna]

As others have mentioned on here, the quality of capture including the ability to do 640 by 480 is great off of the DC10 plus.

My goal - the best quality capture from VHS to DVD.

The problem - the eventual MPEG2 encoding is painfully slow on every encoder I have tried so far - I think due to the MJPEG compression in the AVI file.

Has any one else find a way around this ? Perhaps capture at a lower resolution or use some MPEG2 encoder I haven't tried yet ?

Hardware - 1200 MHZ AMD Athlon, 256 MB Mem, 7200 RPM ATA100 drives

Software - Win98 - Pinnacle Studio 7

[ktnwin]

First, can you capture at 720 x 480 (DVD resolution) ?
Second, conversion from AVI or MJPEG to MPEG-2 is always slow using software. Some software may run faster, some slower.
For example, using TMPGenc, my system (identical to yours) takes 4 hours to convert a one hour AVI (at 720x480 res) to DVD format.
Hope this give you a baseline.

[wumbus]

Here's how I do it:

1. Capture Using AVI_IO / DC10plus at 640x480, 2 fields, 6000kbps
2. Frameserve using AVISynth
- Use "separate fields"
- Bicubic resize to 480x480
- Use "Weave" to re-interlace fields
3. Encode to MPEG-2 with CCE 2.50 (patched to fix CRC error)
- Uncheck "force upper field"
4. Build BIN/CUE file with VCDEasy
5. Burn with CDRWIN