help with converting mpeg2 files to vobs

[a.jobling]

Hi I've being making dvds for a while now, butI have not done vhs to a dvd format.I have just bought a tv card so I can capture my video, the trouble is when I try to convert it with Ulead Video Studio, it alway crashs before it is completed. It works if I only encode a little bit of the mpeg, but whe I try to encode a big portion of the mpeg say one and half hours worth to a title set on my hard drive it keeps crashing. Can anybody recommend another program for doing this ? or have any idea ho to get arround the crashing problem.


My computer spec is
athlon xp 1.7
pc chips 810 motherbord
half a of gig of ram
180 gig of hard disk space
winfast tv 2000 TV card


Thanks

[echooff]

Are you capturing to mpg2 Or avi. A easy to use Dvd Authoring program is Tmpgenc DvdAuthor by Pegasys. Comes with a fully functional 30 day trial period. If you need to get the video to dvd ready mgp2 you can use Tmpgenc mpeg encoder. Also by Pegasys. Both programs are a bit faster than Ulead Video Studio and IMHO a bit more stable.

[a.jobling]

I was capturing to mpeg2, but I could capture to avi, which one would give me the best quality?.

[jggimi]

That's a difficult question to answer. I started out capturing in MPEG-2 and switched, fairly quickly, to AVI. My reasoning was fairly straightforward: With AVI I have the ability to capture and edit using lossless codecs. MPEG-2 is lossy, and I was limited to frameserving via AviSynth for editing without further loss. Not impossible, but it complicated my procedures a bit. (Newer AviSynth script editing technology has come along since then with VdubMod, and would have made this particular concern no longer a factor.) My PCI capture card requires software encoding, and with MPEG-2 I was getting excessive dropped frames at what I considered an acceptable bitrate, even with minimal encoding resource settings, such as eliminating B-frames, or using 100% I-frames.Your choice should be predicated on a measure of both acceptable quality and ease-of-use, and the decision bears testing with your tools and procedures. For example, if you will not require a transcoding step (such as resizing, removing unwanted sections, or other editing) to go from capture to the MPEG-2 stream used in the DVD, then MPEG-2 capture may be perfect for you.

To net it out: try both, see which you like best. See which works better for you.