problem while capturing vhs video

[ricardo.santos]

Hi everyone!

i just bought a capture card to put my old vhs videos on dvd, as i am on a tight budget i bought this one:
http://www.aver.com/2005home/product/tvtuner/pci/tvgo7/tvgo7.shtml

from what i read in several forums its best to capture to uncompressed avi and then use a dedicated program to convert it to MPeg2/dvd since most editing programs handle avi better than dvd while editing and the video quality is better

when i set it to capture to avi the audio is not in sync with the video but if i capture on the fly to dvd it is in sync, since quality is important to me and capturing to avi first will improve it i installed trial capture programs (virtualvcr, mainconcept encoder etc) but it seems the card doesnt like having other capture programs installed on my pc, because it would give out an error when initializing the program.

my last chance lies with mainconcept pvr.

my question is has anyone got any suggestion on what i should do?, should i settle for a on the fly dvd conversion?

to capture vhs video is ithe best to buy an external usb2 capture "box" or an internal one?

thanks

Ricardo

[jggimi]

We don't recommend uncompressed AVI, we recommend lossless compression.

Aver cards have been BT878-based in the past -- look at the card, note the chip being used. You may be able to use non-Aver supplied drivers, if the supplied ones seem to restrict the capture software you can use.

Follow the advice in our capture guide and capture FAQ.

[ricardo.santos]

thanks for the tip, will check the card when i get home.

do i have to open the software supplied with the card to capture with other programs, i tried virtual dub and ulead and they only seemed to capture with when the card software was "open"

it seems i have a lot to read.

Thanks