P. Jayant

I ham using Vista 32 Premium. It is not clear to me as to which mpeg-2 is used by the PixelView capture card when it offers to capture in mpeg-2 format. Your assessment that the mpeg-2 encodec is perhaps bogus seems to be corroborated to me since the 3-4 minute song files captured by Nero or ATI's MMC in the past used to be around 80 to 100 MB, the PixelView files for a 3-4 minute song are hardly 30 to 40 MB.
I have seen some Video capture applications asking which encoder the User would like to use. But no such luck with the PixelView's TV Expert Capture software.

I should also point out that whereas with earlier Video cards, I have been able to capture videos with the W M Encoder in wmv format, with the PixelView Card, the WME fails to bring up the video, even after meticulously specifying the Source of the video as VCR, capture device as (PixelView SAA7130) and ensuring that the video connection between the VCR and the Video Card are in tact.

Is there any way to ensure that the correct encoder is used for capturing. Or is the real problem with the Capture driver SAA7130?


P. Jayant

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