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[T-Bird33]

Hello all,
I am new at this and not a person who knows a whole lot about comupters. I have used a different program to record my vhs tapes onto my computer. I also have roxio copy and covert (from Roxio eay creator 10 suite) and i use that to change my movie files in to MPEG-2 files. I do this becuase i can fit more hrs of video onto a DVD (i read it on the net somwhere and it has been working very well for me...up to this point) so the problem i am having is i take the recored video and convert it but when i try and look at the recently converted MPEG-2 file, it is just a blank white screen...It says it had completed converting but it just doesnt work. i have tried to recapture the footage and convert it again but the same thing will happen. I have also tried up daeing my Roxie but it still will not work. Any suggestions.

[myguggi]

T-Bird33, on 21 November 2010 - 07:30 PM, said:

Hello all,
I am new at this and not a person who knows a whole lot about comupters. I have used a different program to record my vhs tapes onto my computer. I also have roxio copy and covert (from Roxio eay creator 10 suite) and i use that to change my movie files in to MPEG-2 files. I do this becuase i can fit more hrs of video onto a DVD (i read it on the net somwhere and it has been working very well for me...up to this point) so the problem i am having is i take the recored video and convert it but when i try and look at the recently converted MPEG-2 file, it is just a blank white screen...It says it had completed converting but it just doesnt work. i have tried to recapture the footage and convert it again but the same thing will happen. I have also tried up daeing my Roxie but it still will not work. Any suggestions.

To what format are you capturing the video from VHS? There really should be no need to use Copy & Convert to convert  to mpeg2.

What program are you using to burn the video to a DVD? Are you creating a video DVD that can be played on a DVD player? If not then what are you really trying to do?

A standard 4.7GB DVD can only hold 60 minutes of best quality video. With very high compression (and poor quality) you may be able to get up to 2 hours on a DVD but it might be unwatchable.

[T-Bird33]

myguggi, on 21 November 2010 - 07:58 PM, said:

To what format are you capturing the video from VHS? There really should be no need to use Copy & Convert to convert  to mpeg2.

What program are you using to burn the video to a DVD? Are you creating a video DVD that can be played on a DVD player? If not then what are you really trying to do?

A standard 4.7GB DVD can only hold 60 minutes of best quality video. With very high compression (and poor quality) you may be able to get up to 2 hours on a DVD but it might be unwatchable.

i am using TV wonder HD 650 USb tv tuner for pc and i hook my vcr upto it and go into their program a press record. The files i think are a movie clip it say, .mpg. the problem is when i record the video, a 45 minute video is 13gb and that is way to big for a dvd so then i use roxio copy and convert to convert it into a mpeg-2 file and i have done one video already is it plays on a dvd player...but the video i am currently trying to convert is the one with the problem.

[sknis]

T-Bird33, on 25 November 2010 - 08:09 AM, said:

i am using TV wonder HD 650 USb tv tuner for pc and i hook my vcr upto it and go into their program a press record. The files i think are a movie clip it say, .mpg. the problem is when i record the video, a 45 minute video is 13gb and that is way to big for a dvd so then i use roxio copy and convert to convert it into a mpeg-2 file and i have done one video already is it plays on a dvd player...but the video i am currently trying to convert is the one with the problem.

If one works and the other one deosn't where do you think the problem is?

[myguggi]

T-Bird33, on 25 November 2010 - 08:09 AM, said:

i am using TV wonder HD 650 USb tv tuner for pc and i hook my vcr upto it and go into their program a press record. The files i think are a movie clip it say, .mpg. the problem is when i record the video, a 45 minute video is 13gb and that is way to big for a dvd so then i use roxio copy and convert to convert it into a mpeg-2 file and i have done one video already is it plays on a dvd player...but the video i am currently trying to convert is the one with the problem.

Forget about file sizes when you talk about video. You should be thinking in terms of time. A standard 4.7GB DVD can hold 60 minutes of video at best (HQ) quality. So your 45 minute video will fit on a 4.7GB DVD without any problem no matter how large your captured file is. Your 13GB captured file is propably in the DV avi format. When this is burned to a DVD in the proper DVD video format it will fit. Just use myDVD, add your captured video file and burn. There is no need for any conversion, it is done automatically by myDVD.

[T-Bird33]

myguggi, on 25 November 2010 - 08:58 AM, said:

Forget about file sizes when you talk about video. You should be thinking in terms of time. A standard 4.7GB DVD can hold 60 minutes of video at best (HQ) quality. So your 45 minute video will fit on a 4.7GB DVD without any problem no matter how large your captured file is. Your 13GB captured file is propably in the DV avi format. When this is burned to a DVD in the proper DVD video format it will fit. Just use myDVD, add your captured video file and burn. There is no need for any conversion, it is done automatically by myDVD.

really! i did not know that, i just looked at the file size being 13gb and thought that would never fit onto a 4.7gb disc but i will try that, thanks a million