TV Wonder VE - If you've used it, tell me what you think

[andryn442]

easydvd...you are the One! LOLOL

Ok, I went to Doom 9 and downloaded almost everything on the site. I found several programs that work well with video capture.

Virtual VCR and iuVCR are the one I used recently, and they work great! I have both audio and video together with no problems.

I even used TMPEG to covert the avi into mpeg. So my next step is to use one of the other programs to make a VCD. Thanks so much for your help.

Now, I have a few technical questions:

1. When I try to capture from VCR to AVI (composite), I have had problems getting the picture to show up. All I get is sound with a blue screen. What I have been doing is lining the VCR out (w/ coaxial cable) into the capture card.

Should I be using a different method?

2. How do you control the size of the file you are making? I have come out with 1GB files that are really 1 min. of video footage. Where can I find a table or something that will show me how big something should be?

Thanks again for all your help

[easydvd]

OK, I'll try to answer in order.

1) To capture with composite, you need to use the RCA jack in/out. A yellow, white and red plug on either the back, front or possibly both sides of your VCR. Take the "video out" from your VCR(yellow plug) and connect it to the composite in on your card, another yellow plug.
In the package there should have been an adapter with RCA plugs on one side and a mini-headphone style plug on the other side. Plug the red and white into the adapter and then plug the adapter into whatever you're using for audio

VCR composite video-->>video in on card
VCR composite audio-->>adapter-->>sound card

With the capture app make sure that you specify "composite in" not "tv tuner"

2) My guess for the large file size is that you are capturing "raw". That's uncompressed YUY2 avi. BIG files like that. It's about 60GB per hour at 352x480. Look in whatever tab controls video compression and pick a compression codec. I would suggest HuffYUV if you have 30GB+ of free space and picvideo mjpeg set at 19 for less than 30GB of free space. You'll still get a pretty good cap with picvideo at 19.

3) once you have the mpeg file just use VCDEasy to make a cue/bin from it. You can get that here http://www.vcdeasy.org After you have your cue/bin you can either burn it with VCDEasy or Nero. For nero click the "files" tab and choose "burn image". Load the cue and hit go. Simple as that. Similar for VCDEasy, load the cue and hit "burn". With VCDEasy you may be told that there is no driver, if so go to the CDRDAO settings and pick "generic mmc" That should do you.

You can feel free to mail me if you want and I'll send you a little tutorial w/screenshots