ieee1394 straight to mpg for vcd... help !!!

[tienquang2]

I ve tried to capture thru ieee1394 with my camcorder, using neodvd. I can only get avi format, which you must convert to mpg before writing to vcd and it takes forever. What software can I capture with ieee1394 to mpg straight.

Thanks

[Denman007]

Is your source digital or analog?

I think you want to look into getting a realtime capture card if you have a digital source. Otherwise, I believe something like Ulead Video Studio will allow you to capture in vcd(mpeg).

HTH,
D

[dcsos]

WHAT HE ASKED:
I ASK TOO:
does anyone KNOW OF SOFTWARE THAT CAPTURES TO
mpeg-2 thru the firewire?

[tienquang2]

yes, i found out the NEODVD can capture from ieee1394 to mpeg1 or 2 in real time. Out of my 40 minutes of movie, the first 5 is good, the rest sorta skip. Is this due to my ram capacity of only 128Mb, or my video card? I think I should upgrade my ram to another 512Mb, any ideas?

[TBoneit]

I suspect that it is a combination of RAM and CPU speed... could be other bottlenecks too of course.

For example I had no problems doing what you want to do on a P4 2.0 Ghz w/512Memory, 7200 hard drives.

If you only have one drive it could be as simple a problem as the fact that you are capturing to the same drive the OS is on. Capturint to the same drive as a swap file is on is a problem.

CVapturing to MPG format with software like you are trying to do is very cpu intensive as it must compress in real time.

I broke down and bought after trying CCE Basic to encode my AVI captures as that way I can get better quality than real time encoding.

But it depends on the source. a clean digital signal (Sat TV, Digital Cable, & DV Camcorder) are easier to encode than a Videotape capture. The noise and the head switching from the vcr can cause problems.

So in essence More info could be helpfull.

Good Luck
Roger

[dcsos]

I'll do a test cause my friend has NEO 4.0
If I can thursday to keep this thread alive
ANYONE ELSE?
I can't use my fastest machine but I.ll try it on the Abit with 1.6p4 at 1.2GIG SDRAM 133 using the SIIG FIREWIRE CARD

IEE1394 DIRECT TO MPEG 2
does neo let you set any characteritics of the I-Frames or GOP structure or is it basically one setting?