Recording in Mpeg-2

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Hey guys,

I am recording a movie straight to MPEG-2 format through my ATI Radeon video in card. Someone told me to download a Bitrate Calculator, so i did.

I downloaded the "AVI/(X)(S)VCD Bitrate Calculator" from the tools section, can someone give me a few lessons how to use this thing so i dont have to encode my videos? 8)

thx for all your help guys
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[Syndrome]

I just realized, that when I record in MPEG-2, my audio goes out of sync. can anyone tell me why this might be happening? I can record in mpeg-1 just fine.

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[JazzMC]

Sorry for answering a question with a question, but what do you use to capture to MPEG2 from a normal video-in graphics card ?

I would be really interested in that piece of news .

I don't know what you mean with ' using a bitrate calculator so that you do not have to encode the video ' .

As I have some knowledge about calculators, or better, about what they do, I could probably help you, but it would be nice if you could be a bit more specific as to what effect you want to use it (other than to get your desired filsesize), and what exactly you do not understand in it's usage .

Cheers ,

Jan .

[Syndrome]

Hey,

I am just using my ATI Radeon 64MEG DDR video card to capture. It has an ATI Multimedia center that allows me record directly into MPEG-2.

I wanted to do this, to make an SVCD, because I cannot get any encoding to work right. The audio goes out of sync no matter what i do. Even converting the mpeg-1 to an avi file, the audio goes out of sync.

So i thought, maybe if i could just record straight to MPEG-2 i could just burn it straight to a SVCD. However, when i am recording now, it goes out of sync for some reason.

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[turm]

Try shutting everything what runs in the background of your computer
off (programms like norton virus ect.)
Change your destop pic to blank.

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ok i just tried that
still has an audio delay though, it makes all the audio go out of sync.

I would like to record in mpeg-1 and convert it to mpeg-2 using TMPEG, but the audio always goes out of sync with that aswell.. even when i encode the audio and video from seperate files (im trying to make an SVCD)

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[pepegot1]

Don't waste your time with mpeg 2. Use Virtual Dub. Mpeg 2 is difficult to edit. Unless you have some high powered equipment, results are not too good. I too have an ATI 64 meg DDR VIVO and it does a good job for me, but I avoid mpeg 2 for better quality and flexibility.

[Syndrome]

Well I dont really have all that much choice!

When i record in MPEG-1, i cant encode it to MPEG-2 because i always get audio sync problems (no matter what i do). It starts out IN SYNC for the first 10 minutes, then gradually moves out of sync.

I cant record in AVI because there is a file restriction of 4 gig, and im sure that i would get the sync problems anyways when i encoded it to mpeg-2 for SVCD format.

can you help me fix ANY of these????

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