Other programs to record/edit with Asus TV Tuner

[beatle]

Are there any other programs to record/edit video with the Asus TV Tuner? PowerVCR is rather poor, and PowerDirector makes editing a chore, no matter how fast your computer and harddrive is. The quality is excellent, but I'm not able to capture @ 44KHz and editing is extremely clunky, especially when dealing with more than 30 minutes of footage.

Also, does anyone know of a way to get DScaler working with this card?

 

[JetBlack69]

Sorry I don't know the answer, maybe VirtualDub, but how is the quality? I got one coming in 2 days.

 

[beatle]

I'm pretty picky about quality and the Asus doesn't disappoint. It's really lacking in the software department though. If you're planning to capture, make sure you do a search in the registry for "MaxRecSizeMB" and change the value to something higher than 600. Otherwise it'll chop up your video into 600 meg segments...

 

[DaveSimmons]

have you checked out www.dvdrhelp.com (used to be vcdhelp.com)?

 

[beatle]

Bump, any other suggestions? I tried WinDVR, which doesn't seem to do a very good job of anything. I have a bad feeling that in order to take advantage of the mpeg2 capture assist of the card, I'm going to need software that supports it... unfortunately I don't know of any others.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I gave up trying to get Dscaler to work with my Leadtek tuner. 🙁

If you have plenty of HD space, you could try capturing uncompressed AVI and use TMPGenc to edit/convert the AVI into a MPG video file. That's what I do when I capture Futurama on Cartoon Network. Unfortunately, uncompressed AVI is roughly 8gb for a 30 minute show....

 

[beatle]

What software are you using to capture?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Doh! Sorry about that...I am using the Leadtek Winfast PVR software that came with the card.