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tdfuller
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_ 		26. May 2004 @ 10:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi,

I am trying to convert my old VHS tape collection to DVD. Most of the tapes do not have great quality video because 6 hours of SLP was stuffed on each tape. However, the playback quality is good enough.

I have the hardware below. I need software that will easily convert these video tapes in REAL TIME to MPEG. I have WinDVR 3.0 which is supposed to do this but it does not. It just saves the recorded segment as an AVI file, even when I have preselected real-time MPEG. Then when I stop the recording, it takes the time to convert the AVI to MPEG (not real time).

I do not want to sit there and wait 4 hours for the post-record conversion from AVI to MPEG to take place. Nor do I have a massive hard drive, so therefore I do not want to save what comes in as AVI.

In theory this should work on my existing hardware because I do not require a high quality transfer rate. All I need is 3-4000 kbper second of video.

Can you recommend a software that will do what it says and convert the incoming signal to MPEG at real time, unlike WinDVR 3.0? What about MyDVD by Sonic?

I have called WinDVR tech support and they do not know why WinDVR does not do real time recording from my Canopus. The footage plays back great in WinDVR 3, but just will not record in MPEG real time.

Thank you.
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TDFULLER HAS:

A Gateway 450ROG laptop
1.4 MHZ Pentium M /w Centrino
256MB RAM
32MB Video Ram
40 IDE ATA/ATAPI hard drive
Toshiba CD/DVD removeable combo writer
TDK External DVD +/-R/RW X4 writer
Canopus MPEG EMR Mpeg Hardware Encoder
VCR Hooked
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