Realtime Capture VHS -> DVD?

[rob77979]

Is there any product out there that will allow me to capture DVD quality video from analog video straight to DVD?

I have an MSI GeForce3 VIVO card, so this would be capturing through my WDM driver....

Is there a software solution which would make the DVD straight from the capture?

Thanks
Rob

[ses]

Not from my experience, but I am sure that there is someone who has done it. I have an MSI Personal Cinema card (Nvidia) and though I get acceptable quality for on the fly recording, it is nowhere near the quality level that I get by recording in AVI format first and converting to DVD afterwards. I use iuVCR, but I got great results with Virtual VCR also. I had bad luck with VirtualDub getting dropped frames by the thousands, but that's just my system. So many people get good results with so many different programs that it's just to go out and try them all.
If I don't need to clean up the video first and can run it in one pass, I can get a 2 hour film done over night. With my Celeron 2.2 processor and TMPG, with a 2 pass process, it takes around 36 hours to compress a 2 hour film.

[hartford]

Nero claims that it can if you have a processor
=> 1.6GHz.

I've not tried it because my cable captures are
"dirty."

[rfmmars]

Well you can't end up with a DVD quality from a analog videotape source. I think what you were trying to say, can I copy a video tape directly to a DVD without loss of quality.

Close to it with Sonic's MY DVD 4.0 It took for a 2 hr. tape 3 hrs. 20 minutes. Just started the process and walked away.

It really will depend on the quality of the tape and the machine that it is played on. It the tapes are dark and have cable noise, you would do better to use VD to clean them up. With DVD (Mpeg2) crap in super crap out. Always set your brightness and contrasr when capturing so you don't have dark blacks. When the secene fadss to black, you should be set so you see a little gray with grain.

Richard