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I got this with Pixelview XCapture. I use the canned 'DVD for disc' settings and it produces very presentable video. Since the stock bitrate for DVD disc is 6000000, i get files too large to fit on one disc. I author the files then burn to image. I mount the image with daemon tools and use DVDXCopy express to shrink it to fit on one disc. The whole process goes a lot faster than reencoding.
I do not recall more than a couple of crashes. I am running a 2.6g cpu on an nforce chipset mb with the onboard nvidia sound.
This leads to my first complaint. The sound level on every recording is too loud (to the point of distortion), and I am not sure there is anything that can be done to correct it. I am currently testing the volume control in 'Sounds and Sudio Devices Properties', which is the only one I have not tried.
The second complaint is the app produces 'not quite compliant' program streams. PowerDVD opens and plays them but pops up the windows box 'encountered a problem and needs to close'.
Spruce will not author them, but DVD Lab will and makes DVDs playable on my standalone DVD player.
Since I got the bundled version, it will not author DVDs without an upgrade; I cannot comment on this functionality.
Easy to use, makes nice quality video, but if I cannot resolve the audio issue, it is going on the scrap pile. |
