My video cds work on Panasonic but after 10 minutes jerky?

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Please help I have struggled to learn how to do this. I was so happy I finally made a video cd to play on my dvd machine. Only to find 10 minutes in it becomes unwatchable jerky like the frames aren't keeping up. I am only trying to put my old home video on cd so they can be watched on a tv. I use dazzle to get them in. PLEASE HELP.

-- peggy best (no.pucks@verizon.net), May 08, 2002

Answers

well for beginers you need a video capture card, dazzle has received bad reports. sorry to say peggy, but any usb device is bad for video because it can't keep up.

i have ATI TV Wonder For $50 they allow you to connect a vcr or dvd player to it using coaxial and composite connections. there are many others.

Record your video into avi format and then get it into vcd mpeg1 compliant format: resolution 352x240, 29.97 fps. avi2vcd does this automatically simple for anyone that doesn't need to do anything else.

tips- it takes time to convert avi's into mpegs for me 2hrs for 10 minutes. if your computer can then try recording avis higher than 352x240 if frames dropping too much stick withing this area. if you buy ATI install drivers first (get from website) then the card then the software. Finally buy Nero to burn the mpeg to VCD.

Some software lets you record directly into mpeg but the quality is not good depends on your computer...

-- robot (bonl1@cs.com), May 08, 2002.


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