Noob getting started with realtime Xvid encoding

[jjabba]

I do alot of DVD ripping but all the capturing I've done so far has been a multistep process.
However, more frequently now a days I've found myself with neither HD space nor time to capture TV-broadcasts this way.

I've got my PCTV/Pro Capture-Card working fine with virtualdub.

I want to capture MPEG4 video with MP3 audio to an .avi in realtime. If nessesary I might do a "reduceby2" to get rid of any interlacing artifact, quality isn't the main thing here.

No I need to know what kind of Videoencoder to use, and what kind of audio encoder.

If someone could give me some directions I would appriciate it. I'm compleatly lost at this real time encoding thing!:scared:

[Surf]

Hi jjabba,

This might help....

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=864376&posted=1#post864376

[olnima]

I would not recommend to do the audioprocessing in realtime.
Compressing it afterwards is really fast, doing it in realtime takes CPU-Speed. (You need all for Video) Audioencoder -> lame (acm), Videoencoder xvid or divx (second is faster in my opinion at comparable quality, but not free) Using an AMD Athlon 3000+ for example, You can capture in 704*576 in realtime in Divx (balance-Mode) an compress the audio afterwards about ~11*realtime.

Hope that helps a bit

Olnima