Is hard drive OK for VCD'S

[booboobubber]

I have a P111 550, 256MB RAM & 5400 12 GIG HARD DRIVE. Would this machine be able to capture & edit analogue video and covert to VCD using tpmg? I thinking about getting a TV capture card for it.

[devinemi83]

Well that really depends. If you want to capture to VCD using software, your CPU isnt fast enough, but you could capture to divx in higher bitrates. Like 100kbps with good audio. Then convert to VCD. But doing the encoding with take alot and I mean alot of time. like 3-4 times the run length! For my machine, and 500MHz Celeron woth 64 MB RAM and a 7200 40Gig hard disk it would take 6-8 hours per 2 hour movie. Perhaps a better solution for you is a direct to VCD capture card. It will do the encode in real time and capture it right into format. Alot of people claim the Dazzle DV creator 2 is the best, well I had it. Its like 300.00 and does video and and out, you can use it to play VCD/DVDs on your machine out to your tv through its video out. But I found that it doesnt quite work as advertised, when I set it to capture vcd using its template, it didnt work right, the video it made played fine on my somp but when I burned it, the video worked fine on my standalone but there was NO audio at all. Nero didnt give me any warning about the files not being correct, after trying many more times with it, I decided to return it and get my money back.


Look to ATI cards with a little caution, they has ALOT of driver issues, mine the ATI TV WONDER VE made my computer blue screen at startup alot and BS during some other operation. Some cheaper video cards have MPEG1 capture ability and may be what you need.


Any more questions, don't hesitate to ask.