i have an ati capture video card, and i dont know how to see videos from a camera or a vhs in my computer. anyone who knows these cards can help me, and tell me what software to se or how to configurate dthe drivers?.

thanx. manuel

p.s.: my computer runs w xp

-- manuel saine (manuel_saine@hotmail.com), September 15, 2002

Answers

this is something i told someone else at this forum but it's perfect for you because we use the same ATI card. I have the ATI TV wonder VE ($49) tmpgenc.exe (free) can convert any avi or mpeg1 into VCD compatible video. I found that if i capture video into mpeg1 at 6.00bit rate and then convert to VCDmpeg1 video i get excellent results... sometimes the obvious is hard to see I mean mpge1 at 6bit is closer to vcdmpeg1 than avi is to vcdmpeg1 so it should work better (i think). i tried capturing in avi like everyone else but when converted i got pixelated video, so FOR ME this newly discovered way is better but it also depends on your system hardware you have to try what works better for you. I have just got an AMD 2000+ (1667mhz) with 256ddr ram and win xp home. Someone from this forum also mentioned hardware encoding better than software encoding. Dazzle makes a hardware encoder i dont know what its called though. I dont need that now this is good enough for me now (dont have cash for a $200 hardware encoder) Create a mpeg1 6bit setting with your software so when you capture use that setting. hope this works daniel

-- daniel (bonl1@cs.com), September 18, 2002.