The
ATI 600 USB card would have worked in Windows 7, which is something you might want to consider, should it be necessary.
Those are still available at
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B00138EOH8
... but it does sound like the K-World is okay for the moment.
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Its been compatible with Virtualdub, VideoStudio, and a few other programs.
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Standard WDM driver interface, so that's good.
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As far as the software supplied, thats the major downfall.
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Typical for pretty much any software, with few exceptions (such as ATI).
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The program that they call Producer works well to capture the VHS video to the harddrive, and then burn it to DVD. The result was excellant. The other program called Director, would not even run.
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That sounds like
Cyberlink Power Producer and Power Director. Historically, those apps have not been very good, but I know there's been some inroads of success on them in recent years.
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So for now I am using the first one with very good results. The quality is as good as the original, and the files that it creates are on the line of 11 gig for an hours worth of uncompressed video.
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DV compression.
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I had tried to use Virtualdub for about 4 days, but was never able to compress the video enough to get it to fit on a 4.7 gig disk. I used Huffy, but when you start with an uncompressed file of about 47 gig, there is no way to get down to the 4.7 level.
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VirtualDub does not compressed to MPEG-2 for DVD-Video, nor does it author. That requires other programs for those tasks. VirtualDub is only good for capturing or editing (plus restoring).
You can capture to DV or broadcast MPEG-2 (not DVD-Video MPEG-2 specs), with the proper codecs being installed. Both DV and MPEG-2 can be downloaded as part of the Matrox codec package:
http://www.digitalFAQ.com/forum/show...1936#post11936
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Why is virtualdub creating 47 gig files for an hour long video? I was told, as you also mentioned, to just capture the file as uncompresssed. This is what I did when I ended up with the large file. Can you help me understand why the difference? I would prefer to use Virtualdub, but not if it continues to generate those large files.
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This appears to already be answered:
http://www.digitalFAQ.com/forum/show...96.html?t=2396
Think that covers all the questions.
