Can XVID codec captuture in real time from Tuner Card

[The Old Timer]

I have an PC Tuner card in my PC that is digital but also has analogue capture for recording in real time either composite or 's' video signal. I was wondering if anyone was tried using the XVID codec rather than the MPEG2 when capturing. Naturally encoding in real time has to mean that you can only use one pass encoding. The input that I am considering would be old VHS tapes which aren't ever likely to be viewed frequently & as a consequence the archiving of these tapes doesn't need to be of the finest quality. Any ideas?

[CWR03]

Depending on the card, you can capture directly with VirtualDubMod and encode single-pass. If you're using the card's software, it entirely dependent on the software's ability to utilize an external codec. (In other words, if you can select XviD as a capture format, try it and see if it works.)

[jggimi]

Moving to Capture Forum.

General consensus there is to capture using a low-cpu lossless codec such as HuffYUV, rather than MPEG-4, per the capture FAQ and guide.