[Trevorsplace]

I picked up a Creative Digital VCR a couple of weeks ago and am quite happy with quality (even though creating SVCD's is not easy from output). I tried it my main system a PIII 1 Gig system and it played great. I had an older system with a 650 Mhz PIII in and have now dropped the card in there to dedicate to a D-VCR. Using this system I notice a slight jerkiness that did not see on my main system so I need to change the CPU. Question I have is do you think a 1.2 GHz Celeron will perform as well as the 1GHz PIII. The Celeron is $100 cheaper and either will fit in the Asus CuV4X Motherboard I have in the system.


Other hardware I hae added is (2) 80 Gig maxtor drives (Newegg for $103 each, great service), Radeon 7000 VE with Svideo out (to feed convential TV), everything else was in the original PC. I do need to add a wireless Keyboard and Mouse. I also picked up a DirectTV unit for $35 to provide the signal via Svideo input. Total out of pocket has been $300 over the original PC.


I'm using WinXP as the O/S.


All input appreciated.

 

[Scooper]

How are you creating SVCD's ?


I have one of these Creative cards, and it has been an adventure trying to create VCD's that the sound was still in sync with the video. I think I have it down now. It really came together when I downloaded ULEAD's DVD movie factory - I guess the CODEC used by Creative got overwritten by ULEAD's and that fixed the problem nicely.


My process -

#1 - capture

#2 - Export use DVExport

#3 - convert MPG2 to MPG1 using TMPGEnc

#4 - edit the MPG1 file in VirtualDub, breaking what I want to save into individual pieces as AVI's.

#5 - Combine the pieces back into 1 AVI file with VirtualDub. (20-30 minutes)

#6 - Convert the AVI file back into MPG1 using TMPGEnc.

(about an hour)


On my PIII 600, step 3 takes about 12 hours for 1 hour of video recorded at "GOOD" quality. The rest isn't all that bad. I would dearly love to find a cheap, works well MPEG editor that could take the MPG2 file input, let me edit, then output as MPG1 (and doesn't take 12 hours to do so).

 

[Trevorsplace]

Why not just use the Ulead Movie Maker to edit the files then convert them to MPEG 1 with there software. It takes about 3X video length to convert on a 1 Ghz PIII system. I'm glad you posted because at first I had good luck coverting the files from the Creative card with Moviemaker then I started to get sound problems and because of your post I think I know the problem. I edit on a different machine than the capture is done and after I had played with a couple of convertions I decided to load the Creative software on that machine.. I bet the creative software overwrote the Ulead CODEC... I'll go back and reload moviemaker.


Still looking for input on the choice between a 1Ghz PIII or a 1.2 Ghz Celeron. Anyone any ideas I can get the Celeron CPU for $80 compared to $180 for the PIII