Help A Newbie ( Bitrate )

[btvsuk]

Im not sure about video bitrate the default seems to be 910

What would i need to set this to if i want very good quality like almost dvd quality?

Info you might need

Im capturing Video using a Wintv card from a video player

The software im using is Virtual Dub

Im capturing as a divx file

[Mirror_Image]

What resolution are you attempting to capture? 120x80? 640x480?

[btvsuk]

I think its 320 x 288

Virtual Dub doesnt give me a customize tab for some weird reason, and the next highest resolution is 768 x 576 but when i select this i get dropped frames

The pc im using to edit the video is

P3 800
512 PC133 ram
30gig HD lots of space 66udma
kyro 2 64mb
wintv go

[btvsuk]

i experiemented with divx 5 for compression when capturing didnt change any settings used pass 1 and bitrate 1150 not sure about a good bitrate yet, and seemed to be alittle smaller file size than the divx4 compression gave me, and the same quality as far as i could tell