Winfast tv2000xp questions

[poncherelli2]

I recently installed this tv tuner card and since a bunch of you own this card, i was wondering if theres any good way to record tv shows with a good quality yet that dont take up a rediculous amount of space. I tried to record a movie off tv and to get a decent quality with mpeg2 i think it was an it took up gigs. Is there anyway to record and compress video at the same time and if so, can anyone give me some directions please. Thank you.

 

[poncherelli2]

bump.

anyone?

 

[Pauli]

I don't know about the card in particular, but for video capture, the compression setting is in the capture software. You should be able to capture in many compression formats. MPEG2 compresses pretty well, but the file sizes are still pretty large. Regular MPEG1 is considerably smaller, but the quality suffers. If you can capture to DIVX with your software, that would be better, as long as you don't need to burn it to CD and watch with a DVD player.

 

[poncherelli2]

how do you capture it straight into a divx format?

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: poncherelli2
how do you capture it straight into a divx format?

You can choose this option directly within the leadtek recording software. Be warned, it is unlikely it will turn out well. Your system needs some serious horsepower to record directly into divx. You can try it, but don't expect much. Personally, I record into mpeg 2 and then burn what I record into onto vcds.

 

[JellyBaby]

Yep you can capture/compress to DivX at the same time but it will take considerable CPU power and sometimes you'll get a strange error and the application will bail. It's probably best to save to uncompressed AVI if you have space then compress the file later using something like VirtualDub.