reduce quality??

[urban legend]

Hi to all,
I recently bought a Digital Satellite Tv card (Twinhand DTV Sat-Express),and it is working
very well technically ...the  problem am having is that the captured scesnes are installed as MPEG2 format
which is inconvinient to me because i want to convert the scenes to VCD so that the VCD player
can read it ...i tried to encode and burn the scenes on Nero but the outcome sound of
the scenes was chopped when i played it back on the VCD...i also encoded it using  Cyberlink Power Director Pro v3.0.1110 but the
encoded scene had a sound delay...encoding it using Video Studio 8
worked perfectly but the only problem is that it takes a very long time to encode a scene...say if there
is a 30 min scene,it will take 45 min for VS to encode it...am using XP SP2 ...

any help will be great ...

thanks

[dl65]

 urban legend.....You may want to consider replacing the VCD player with one that will read MPEG2 .......They arent a whole lot of money and will save you hours of encoding.  
Just a thought ....

dl65  

[urban legend]

well thx dl65 ...but am not considering that now,,,and it is crucial for my work that the scenes can be read with a VCD player...thx for the suggestion though

[Dell4700]

Urban Legend,

-  You can try other conversion software.  Digital Media Creator (free test drive) can be downloaded here:  http://www.deskshare.com/download/dmc/dmc.exe
Information here:  http://www.deskshare.com/dmc.aspx
and here:  http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/dmc_understandingvcddvdformats.aspx

-  Another option is to write in SVCD format on CD.  These can usually be read by the same players as VCDs.  Since it is also mpeg-2, converting and burning should be much quicker.  SVCD video bit rate (2500 kbps) is lower than DVD formats (6000 kbps), but higher than VCD (1152 kbps)

I use Video Studio too and it works.  But, as you say, it takes more time.  (un)Fortunately, I have lots of that!

Dell

[urban legend]

okay Dell thx for the help...

sry for the late answer..