Capture to DV tape or stream 1394?

[mb571]

I am trying to help a friend who wishes to convert satellite shows to svcd.
He is using the s-video out of the satellite receiver, to a Sony 8mm DV camcorder, to a 1394 firewire board.

Is it best to capture to tape, or stream directly, or does it matter?

Which program should be used to capture, and to what format?

We were trying to capture to mpeg2 with PowerVCRII but it just gave DV control errors??

We will then convert to SVCD with tmpgenc

Mark

[flaninacupboard]

either a direct stream or record to tape and playback, it makes no difference to the quality, but obviously capping to tape and playing back is way more convenient.
there are loads of DV capture apps. DVIO is no frills and free, DVapp gives you a nice preview, and Scenalyzer is $30 or so, but those who have bought it are very happy with what it can do. your captured DV will be in an .AVI file, and you can open this in TMPGenc no problems.

[tigeroolfd]

I am not sure if PowerVCRII can capture as SVCD or not, but there are other programs that let you capture directly as SVCD (ULead Video Studio 7, WinDVD Recorder, etc.) ULead VS 7 also has a very nice editor that you can use to cut the MPG file.