i have a tv tuner card in my other computer. i can hook up a VCR to it. now i was wondering, anyone know of a program that can record the movie and save it into some kinda file format, like avi or mpeg? and this prolly should be in software, not hardware, but im lazy so somebody could move it
any help will be vastly appreciated. thanks
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hard to say, since most cards come with some sort of program that works with just that card to record to avi or mpg. If somehow you do get an AVI, I;d suggest www.tmpegenc.com for a freeware encodeer that's pretty fast and had great quality.
What card do you have?
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yeah it comes with a program for watching tv and whatnot
and ive tried recording to avi with it
it always cuts off after a certain amount of time
plus it sucks up ALL OF THE ROOM ON MY HD! avi's are massive
thanks tho. im going there right now
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site doesnt work-but i think i found the file somewhere else. ill screw around with this tomorrow nite.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">[This message has been edited by Finity on May 21, 2001 at 02:29 AM]</font>
sounds like they're recording as uncompressed avi's. Which are going to be huge. Try downloading that program and compressing them as mpegs. You can also do things like splice and join if you have multiple files and want to make one big movie file.
Not sure if you ran into this problem, but there's a 2 gig limit on AVI files, and your program won't record if they grow past that. That may be the issue.
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yeah that might have been the problem
but i seem to remember the 2 gigz being like 2 minutes of video or some junk
but i got the tmcmpeg thingy and now im getting a multiple mpeg joiner thingy
so ill letcha know how it goes on the morrow
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cool, I usually use the VCD preset. It provides pretty good quality at about 11 meg/sec, which isn't terribly bad. It's the same bitrate as cd quality audio.
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--Dann
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I usually recommend Adobe Premier for video capture and editing chores. However, it is payware and it is expensive.
If you're recording in Win98, the reason that it cuts off is because there is a 2GB file limit in Win9x, not just on AVI's. Only way I know to get around it is to grab the video in 2GB chunks, then compress them, then join them together. However, it's recommended to use NT/2000, since you can bypass the 2GB file limit, and have larger volumes than you can with Win9x.
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Depends on what kind of compression you're using.
AVI is going to be HUGE. 16GB probably wouldn't be enough.
MPEG would be considerably less, not sure on the exact amount, but a 2 hour movie would still be pretty big.
You could always take an MPEG and compress it using the Divx codec, which would compress a 2 hour movie to under a gig. However, you would need a pretty hefty machine to play it back acceptably (no skips or freezes).
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USing the Divx codec you can get a regular 2 hour movie to around 750 -800 Mb for almost 640x480 (Ive done widscreen DVD's that arent regular ratio), with great quality!
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Ace> The only drawback is that the decompression must be done on the fly, requiring a fairly hefty CPU (800MHz+) to get decent playback, without skips, jumps, and pauses.
Small file size does come with a price.
However, if you have a machine that's capable of doing that with satisfactory results, the Divx codec is a great option.
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