Capture TV Direct to DVD

[jrenna]

Is it possible to capture a TV program and burn it directly to DVD? I have an All-In-Wonder 9000 video card and the latest Nero Vision Express.

 

[Matthias99]

You can easily capture TV in an MPEG2 format and burn the file to a DVD -- although most DVD players will not be able to play this directly (some newer ones can, though). If you want to create a "real" DVD that all players can use, you need authoring software (to add menus, formatting, etc. so that DVD players can read it).

I don't know of any software that will go directly from TV card->DVD without storing a file on your hard drive, if that's what you mean. Your question wasn't very clear. 🙂

 

[uOpt]

You can write to a DVD medium if you manage to get a compressed stream fast enough. That won't be possible in software, but if you have a capture device which already delivers compressed enough video streams then it will work.

However, that is just the DVD medium. That doesn't make a DVD in the organisational sense. I am not aware of any solution which would be able to do that on a as-data-comes-in bases.

In fact it might even be impossible to start writing a complicant DVD without first having all the data, because some of the directory information (and menus etc) might require that you know precisely what will end up on the disk in the end, and this meta-information MUST be written first, hardware DVD players are too dumb to grab data off a DVD in logical order like a computer does.

 

[jrenna]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry my question wasn't clear, but that is what I am trying to do, burn a DVD of a TV show directly from the TV capture video card, without it first creating a file on my hard drive. Sort of like a DVD recorder.