tv capture info

'cmon guys 39 views and no replies? surely you don't all don't care :( what if I tell you I'm a hot blond, will you help?

I have a P4 1.8 and I used Xvid codec for capture at 352x288. VirtualVCR is the program I used and CPU utilisation stays at approx 50%. No a single drop frame. I see that you like to capture at 720x576. I believe you are not going to make it with Xvid. You may like to use MJPEG instead. If PQ is no to big a concern, why not do a 720x288 capture and say good-bye to interlace problem?

I have the deluxe version of that card (not expert). When using the included software (winfast pvr) it would capture at about 40% cpu usage on my 2.4ghz. I switched to virtualvcr and now push only about 20% cpu usage while capturing huffyuv @ 704x480 ... don't use leadtek's pvr software, it sucks.

Thanx for all the replies! And to address the resolution concerns, the only reason I'm doing that high rez is to be able to do downsize latter. Although I never had a capture card before, I thought I would capture at some hight bitrate/hight rez, so that I get the most quality I can from what analong cable delivers, then I can do a 2pass encode to whatever lower bitrate/rez with some AviSynth filters for resize, clean, and such. I want to make it easier on my hardware to capture so it doesn't drop frames (because that's kinda unfixable), but then work it hard to do an encode and let it take its time with it. About space, I'm planning to capture 20-30min of video, how much space does it teke up for you guys? I can give it 10Gb max unfortunately. And lastly would you guys say that doom9's guide to TV capture is up to date and I should have it as reference?

Yeah 30 minutes of HuffYUV is ~13-14gb