Gb-pvr

***sub*** · 2006-08-10, 10:43 PM

Most people only use a few minutes padding, but depends on how often your broadcasters run off schedule. If they're nearly always on schedule, then just use a couple of minutes, and make sure your clock is set correctly.

Orbital · 2006-08-10, 11:33 PM

Sub,
You seem the right person to ask this question to. I would like to transfer one of my VHS tapes onto DVD. The only problem is Windows Movie Maker is the only progam I have to import my Tape into my PC. From what I see it will only import as a wmv file. How much quality will I lose if I want to code back to DVD such as Vob's / Mpeg 2. I know this is off the topic of GB-PVR but I figured you could give me a quick answer since you know all about Video.

***sub*** · 2006-08-10, 11:44 PM

Sorry, I dont have answer for this. I'm sure if you use the forum search feature though you'll find comments from others that have done it in the past.

Orbital · 2006-08-10, 11:51 PM

No Problem at all....... I'll check the forums

elite · 2006-08-11, 07:36 AM

You might find this useful as it gives pros and cons of different software

Also, you can use a hack to get GBPVR to do this: see here

I'd steer clear of capturing to WMV then transcoding back to mpeg - the quality won't be great

Orbital · (This post was last modified: 2006-08-18, 05:21 AM by Orbital.)

elite Wrote:You might find this useful as it gives pros and cons of different software

Also, you can use a hack to get GBPVR to do this: see here

I'd steer clear of capturing to WMV then transcoding back to mpeg - the quality won't be great

I agree about the wmv conversion.... I've been using Windows Movie Maker and saving as an AVI but I'm having issues conveting to Mpeg 2 for DVD. The Video and Audio are out of sync. I've tried several things to fix this but can't seem to find the issue. What I need to do is code directly to Mpeg 2 like GB-PVR does then I won't have this issue. This is what I tried to solve the sync issus.

http://www.click-now.net/forums/lofivers.../t137.html

I read The second link about making GB-PVR read from RCA and it sounds interesting. I tried it and things seems to work great. Its nice to record directly to Mpeg 2. I just need some editing software that will let me do this. Currently I use Nero to edit out the commercals then burn to dvd but as for home movies Windows Movie Maker gives me sync issues as I stated above. I would like to use Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 but because my Processor doesn't support SSE2 I can't use it. AMD started giving the AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 support but my Athlon XP 2800+ doesn't support it. Athlon Xp's only support SSE not the second generation.