Well WinDVR 3.0 has Higher Encodeing Quality and Has a Built in Noise filter and a Decomb Filter, WinDVR 3.0 Has More audio formats to Capture with Like "LPCM" and "Dolby Digital AC3" and the Video Bitrate Can Be set all the Way up to "20,000KBS" it Can Capture from DV Devices Via Firewire were Windvr 2 Didn"t, and it can capture to DV and Mpeg with those devices, and Windvr 3 has a CD/DVD Burning engine also, Pluss it probably has a Whole bunch of things I can"t think of now..I consider WinDVR 3.0 the Best Quality Mpeg2 capture program available on the consumer market pluss it is Cheap and easy to use.....Cheers
Here's Intervideo's comparison chart: http://intervideo.com/jsp/WinDVR.jsp?mode=new Minion, In November, you indicated that you were capturing with WinDVR and then encoding with TMPGEnc. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/56804 Are you still doing this? Doesn't WinDVR have its own encoder?
WinDVR 3.0 Captures Directly to Mpeg2 so there generally isn"t any Need to Encode the Files because they are allready in Mpeg2 format, But the Problem is that at the Bitrate I have to use to Get 2 hours on a DVD which is about 4500kbs the Quality isn"t as Good as I would Like ,But if I raise the Bitrate up to 20,000kbs the Image Quality Is Really Quite good and it should be at 450% the Bitrate I would Normally use..So I take the Mpeg2 File that I captured at 20,000kbs and I Frameserve it to CCE to do a 3 Pass Encode But I add a Few Filters Like a Temporal Smoother to Clean up any Static or Noise and do any color correction that is Needed and re-encoded it to Mpeg2 for DVD...The Resulting File Looks Much Much Much better than if I were to have Captured the File at 4500kbs and Burned it to DVD...There is allways a Method to my Madness....Cheers PS: I do not use this Method very Often but it works Very well when I do use it....
Minion, That’s great. . .really. You set the bar so high, those of us with obsessive compulsive disorders feel we’ve got to try it. But probably not in this lifetime. Sounds like a byte too much for me. BTW, CCE is your encoder? Which one?
Hi ,This method actually isn"t very hard or Take Much time , You can Go from VHS to DVD in about 5 hours when Useing CCE to encode on a fast system...I use CCE SP 2.76 Right now and sometimes Procoder 1.5 but I find CCE the superior encoder if you tweak it right and use AVISynth Filters...Take it easy ...Cheers
