2 quick questions

dirkman12 · Post by **dirkman12** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:16 am

alright i am gonna make this quick

1. can you burn video to audio cd-r and not jut dvd-r?

2. what is the best and /or easiest way to hook a vcr up to my pc? i have a dell dimension 4550 pc with windows xp.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:51 am

As quick as I can

(1) Yes. You can burn video to a CD-R, using the VCD format. This is a mpeg-1 format, lower bitrate, quality is about as good as VHS tape.
(2) Several ways:
Get a video capture card that can handle analogue video.
USB video converter boxes also exist. Others on this board know all about these; hope they dive in.
If you have a digital camcorder it may have a pass-through facility. If so you're in luck - plug the VCR into the camera and connect the camera to the PC via firewire. No worries.

dirkman12 · Post by **dirkman12** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:58 am

Thank you Ron, you have helped me ALOT!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:15 am

You can also burn a Super VCD (SVCD) to CD. It is an MPEG-2 file and noticeably higher quality than VCD. But you fit less on a CD (around 40 to 45 minutes). And also be aware that not all DVD players will play SVCDs.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:13 am

Most noticeably, SVCDs with chapters don't do well in players.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:49 am

Capture Device Links:

Pinnacle makes both external boxes that connect between the video device and your computer's FireWire or USB-2 port as well as cards (PC boards) that plug into a PCI slot inside your PC.

I have a Hauppauge PVR-250 video capture card which has a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. This means your CPU doesn't have to do any work to encode, and I don't have any dropped-frame problems. But, it only captures in MPEG-2 which doesn't edit very well.

The most popular video capture cards are the various TV-Wonder and All-In-Wonder cards made by ATI.

Most of the internal cards have a TV tuner, so you can watch TV on you TV, or use it as a TiVo.

david reece · Post by **david reece** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:40 pm

you could create a Mini DVD.

Problem it wont more than likely work on your DVD player.

I am not a great fan of capture TV cards with MPG2 chips on thm as you tend to get por quality video. AVermdia is one in question.