Direct to DVD,can't find capture device,Emuzed Evcap Maui
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tbowen777
Direct to DVD,can't find capture device,Emuzed Evcap Maui
I recently purchased Movie Factory 4. I want to be able to record TV direct to DVD. When I try to do this, I get error message, can't connect to driver, Emuzed EvcapMaui Device. What do I do to resolve this problem?
WARNING - I've never tried Direct-To-DVD. So, the following is mostly theory, speculation, and opinion. 
This is an easy thing for a stand-alone DVD recorder. But, it's a very difficult thing for a PC! If your capture card didn't come with it's own direct-to-DVD software, it might not work, or it might not work well. (I assume this Ulead feature usually works with digital "capture" from a digital camcorder.)
Analog capture is tricky.... even without real-time DVD burning!
Some capture hardware only works with its own special software. 3rd-party software, is "hit or miss". This seems to be especially true when the capture device has a hardware MPEG encoder, which I think yours does.
(Once you have a digital video file on your hard drive, you can use any software you wish. )
You need a fast computer. It has to keep-up with the streaming video. Just about any computer is fast-enough on average, But Windows is a multitasking operating system, so "on-average" is not good enough... Even if you're not running more than one application, there is stuff running in the background. If the CPU is busy doing other things, you can miss a video-frame once in a while.
If you have a hardware MPEG encoder you can get by with a slower computer, because the MPEG compression means the CPU and data bus don't have to handle as much data.
The video on the DVD must be MPEG encoded. But, most video capture cards don't have an MPEG encoder. In that case, capturing directly to MPEG is a bad idea. MPEG compression/encoding takes lots of processing power. This makes it more likely that you'll get dropped frames. So, the standard procedure is to capture-to AVI/DV, and perform the MPEG encoding later when the CPU can take it's time.
When you add real-time DVD burning to the above list of potential complications... you're asking for trouble... IMHO.
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FYI - There is a downside to MPEG-only caputure cards. (I have one, so I do have experience with this.) MPEGs are not meant be edited, and you may run into some nasty problems if you do edit them. (I've had "lip-sync" errors and occasional crashes with edited MPEGs.)
This is an easy thing for a stand-alone DVD recorder. But, it's a very difficult thing for a PC! If your capture card didn't come with it's own direct-to-DVD software, it might not work, or it might not work well. (I assume this Ulead feature usually works with digital "capture" from a digital camcorder.)
Analog capture is tricky.... even without real-time DVD burning!
Some capture hardware only works with its own special software. 3rd-party software, is "hit or miss". This seems to be especially true when the capture device has a hardware MPEG encoder, which I think yours does.
(Once you have a digital video file on your hard drive, you can use any software you wish. )
You need a fast computer. It has to keep-up with the streaming video. Just about any computer is fast-enough on average, But Windows is a multitasking operating system, so "on-average" is not good enough... Even if you're not running more than one application, there is stuff running in the background. If the CPU is busy doing other things, you can miss a video-frame once in a while.
If you have a hardware MPEG encoder you can get by with a slower computer, because the MPEG compression means the CPU and data bus don't have to handle as much data.
The video on the DVD must be MPEG encoded. But, most video capture cards don't have an MPEG encoder. In that case, capturing directly to MPEG is a bad idea. MPEG compression/encoding takes lots of processing power. This makes it more likely that you'll get dropped frames. So, the standard procedure is to capture-to AVI/DV, and perform the MPEG encoding later when the CPU can take it's time.
When you add real-time DVD burning to the above list of potential complications... you're asking for trouble... IMHO.
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FYI - There is a downside to MPEG-only caputure cards. (I have one, so I do have experience with this.) MPEGs are not meant be edited, and you may run into some nasty problems if you do edit them. (I've had "lip-sync" errors and occasional crashes with edited MPEGs.)
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