I have a winfast tv 2000xp tv tuner capture card. I use the winfast software to capture. My goal is to copy vhs tapes to dvd. My problem like others is a video/audio synching problem. After reading this forum it appears to make sense to try another software program for doing the capture. Please anyone share with me your favorite capturing programs. Especially if they have a featue to set the "master stream"?? to video. Thanks.
Don't know how much this will help, but here's how I do it with no problems. I'm cheap, so I bought a crappy Dazzle DVC80. It was on sale for $60 or so. When I set up everything correctly, and installed the MGI Video Wave, nothing worked. It dropped to many frames, and the audio sucked. The sound would be so off, that I had king-fu theatre goin on in just the first few minutes. My solution: I downloaded Windows Movie maker 2 for free (remember that I'm cheap). I also only use the DVC80 for video only. I routed the audio straight from the VCR to the microphone input on the computer. I simply went into the sound configuration, and turned the mic boom off and lowered the sound. MGI dropped too many frames as do many programs, and do not compensate the audio to match. Windows movie maker does. The latest program also has the option of higher bit rates up to 2.1 mbps. I find that the variable bit rate for large files works great. Time to cature. I simply tell the wizard where my video is coming from, where the audio is coming from, and what bit rate I want to cature in. Then I hit play on the VCR and record on the Windows Movie maker and presto, I have a huge WMV file. Since I record TV series, the episodes are non stop. So I build up a certain number of episodes, then encode them in TMPEGnc. I usually encode them in VCD 2.0 or XVCD, because it is already DVD compliant with TMPEGnc DVD. Also, you can throw over 400 minutes on DVD with full chaptering capabilities and very little loss of quality. Only real loss of quality is the fact that it's coming from a VHS tape. This should work great with your cature card. Good luck.
Hello, I was previously discussed in another track that if you want a simple and yet good encoder into Mpeg2 with Digital Audio, Try InterVideo WinDVR but it is a pay program. To be honest, the Leadtek PVR itself can actually do the master stream settings in the 1st setting folder. Well, I would suggest that you try to change the master stream to audio instead of auto and so far, the is the 1st tread that has video/audio synchonization problem with Leadtek WinFast TV2000 TV Tuners. Maybe you would also heck out Leadtek's website for latest driver and PVR software. I'm having the WinFast TV2000XP Expert and is working superb after fixing my IRQ problem.
Thanks for the help. I recaptured a 30 minute vhs tape with the master stream set to video and it appears to of settled my out of sync problems. Can anyone tell me about these settings and what they do? Thanks, Kyle
