Divxtompeg2: Play and Capture in the same machine (?)

[rui]

Hi all:

I am trying to convert a few (only a few;) of my divx/xvid movies to dvd-r, to be able to read them in my standalone in the living room.
I already read a number of threads about this, but i would like to know if this idea i have would work:
Is it possible, in the same computer to capture, using an analog capture card (brooktree 878 and a mpeg2 capable capture software) a divx movie played throught the tv-out of a graphics card??
The machine is a AMD XP 1900+, with 256 MB Ram, with a 30+30 GB Samsung hard drive.
The sound would come from the audio-out of my SBLive directly to the audio-in (the Live is capable of full-duplex).

Would this work? Has anybody tried this? I know the quality wouldn't be good, but if i recompress the divx, it would not be good also.

Thanks for all the opinions,

Rui from Portugal

[bb]

Don't know if that works, but why would someone want to do that? It's much better to directly convert the video, or to use frame serving. Otherwise you'll have at least the well-known realtime issues.

bb

[rui]

Thanks for the reply.

My main problem is about subs. I must have them (i'm from Portugal), and the known dvd authoring softwares don't accept *.SUB files.

I know that there is a way, when doing SVCD, of incorporating outside subs (by using a vobsub 2.14 Vdub plug-in) like is explained here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27108 and here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27322, but for DVD i think there is nothing. I even posted in a thread below a post about this.
My only solution is (i think) to convert the *SUB to SSA, then mux the subs into the avi using submux (it only accetps SSA for muxing, correct?), then import the new video with subs burned into it to Maestro and creat my DVD.
Or do this capture stuff, since i would play the divx with the subs loaded using Bsplayer.

EDIT: but i will try the avisynth script i got from those threads:

LoadPlugin("Path\to\textsub.vdf")
TextSub("path\to\subtitlefile.ssa")

and see if it works when feeding CCE.