Need Help!

[Skinrod]

ok
i am new to all this videos stuff and i need to know certain things

1)when i capture a video it comes out no where near the quality i need it also sometimes comes out jerky.
2) i have not yet been able to cature any sound at all.
3)is there any way of recording videos from my computer (avi's mpegs, rm etc.) to a vhs tape.

some info :
i have a decent computer (128 RAM 400MhZ processor or higher i cant remember) a 8GB and 3GB Hard drive (i think it shoud be good enough i hope)
i have got a WinTV Pci card and i have adobe premiere, VDub .
latest codecs (downloading NIMO PAck at the minute)

i want to create some vcds of VHS tapes(concerts Films etc)

please can anyone help me on any of my problems an hopefully help me get creating.
reply asap
P.S
please help me crack all my problems

[Tommyknocker]

Did you read the newbie guides, yet? Be careful, though, they are addictive. I did not know that when I first started out myself (still a newbie here). So now I spend all my free time here. So start there.

[KingJohn]

Skinrod, do you have the same capture card as me ? WinTV 2000 PCI basic?

Well If you do, then a 400Mhz computer might not be enough power for the type of capture you are trying. You don't say what that is, the size you are trying to capture might be too large for your machine, you should lower this until you get good results.

You say its a WinTV PCI, so I guess it has no mpeg capture straight to mpeg1 for VCD, if this is correct then you can download the mpeg1 capture program for your card from this site;

http://www.hauppauge.de/sw_pci.htm look for the program called nanoDVR Realtime Capture, its a good program.

As for the sound, if you have a mono card, try moving the audio balance to the left channel and make a recording, then move it to the right channel and do the same thing, you can do that with Windows volume control.

To put the video onto VHS tape, you need video out, the basic WinTV card does not have that