ativcr -> mpeg2/DVD on AIW 9600 PRO on machine - dropped frames - alternatives?

[mutator_accessor]

I am a relative newbie to DVD/mpeg2. I have a AIW 9600 Pro and am
trying to get some home VHS movies onto DVD for playback in a standard
DVD player. I have tried to use the Pinnacle Studio that came with
card and have tried to use ATI's capture to encode to mpeg2 at full
frame. But I get about 30% frame dropout until I reduce the resolution
to something less than 640 x 480 (I tried the various IFrame settings
and they didn't seem to help enough). My conclusion is that my
PIII/933/1.5GB is just too slow. I really can't afford to replace it
right now.

As an alternative, I can record using ATIVCR and the quality is no
worse than the original VHS tape. I also have laptop that runs a 2Ghz
PIV w/ 1GB.

The question is: is there software out there that I could capture on
my slow machine using ATIVCR and then move the file(s) over to my 2Ghz
machine and convert to mpeg2 for DVD and then burn? Would even the
2Ghz machine be adequate for this?

If there are packages (preferably open source) that someone could
point me to and then I could check them out it would be appreciated. I
run on a Win2K machine.

Thanks.

 

[Connor]

I am a relative newbie to DVD/mpeg2. I have a AIW 9600 Pro and am
trying to get some home VHS movies onto DVD for playback in a standard
DVD player. I have tried to use the Pinnacle Studio that came with
card and have tried to use ATI's capture to encode to mpeg2 at full
frame. But I get about 30% frame dropout until I reduce the resolution
to something less than 640 x 480 (I tried the various IFrame settings
and they didn't seem to help enough). My conclusion is that my
PIII/933/1.5GB is just too slow. I really can't afford to replace it
right now.

As an alternative, I can record using ATIVCR and the quality is no
worse than the original VHS tape. I also have laptop that runs a 2Ghz
PIV w/ 1GB.

The question is: is there software out there that I could capture on
my slow machine using ATIVCR and then move the file(s) over to my 2Ghz
machine and convert to mpeg2 for DVD and then burn? Would even the
2Ghz machine be adequate for this?

If I remember correctly, you can use ATI's mmc library to convert the
ativcr video immediately to mpeg2. I'd then use tmpgenc or tmpgenc
source creator to make the mpeg2 a dvd-compliant mpg. Then I'd use
tmpgenc dvd-author to author the mpg to ready-to-burn dvd files.
There's other programs to do this of course, but you can probably tell
that I'm a huge tmpgenc fan. heh.

 

[mutator_accessor]

If I remember correctly, you can use ATI's mmc library to convert the
ativcr video immediately to mpeg2. I'd then use tmpgenc or tmpgenc
source creator to make the mpeg2 a dvd-compliant mpg. Then I'd use
tmpgenc dvd-author to author the mpg to ready-to-burn dvd files.
There's other programs to do this of course, but you can probably tell
that I'm a huge tmpgenc fan. heh.

Thanks, I just downloaded tmpgenc and will give it a try. Once I get a
good mpeg, I will look into the DVD authoring part of this. I have
about 5-6 hours that I am going to have to put on several DVD's so I
have some work to do before I get to that.

MA