I ordered (from Futureshop) a Pine TV Tuner Card for my computer about 2 weeks ago, has yet to come. It's not the best card ever, it may be the worst, but I figured I'd start out with that instead of dropping 100 bucks on a ATI, when a Pine was 20 bucks on sale, off sale now 50 now. To get to the point, I read Virtual Bouy say that Virtual Dub converts avi to mpeg and other conversions (my card only captures AVI, does that matter?). I went to the website and It said that it Reads not writes mpeg-1. I'm just wondering what to beileive. I just had a suspicion that it was only mpeg-1 and that it could support AVI to Mpeg-2,3 or 4. Thanxs for the help I appreciate it.

avi is NOT a compression , it is a container, think of avi as the can and mpeg1,2,4 as the soup inside vdub will output a .avi file containing the format you choose , i recommend capturing with the codec Huffyuv and then converting to a better format for archiving (such as xvid) if you want to capture straight to mpeg1,mpeg2 (vcd/svcd) they will normally provide you with this software in the box,other wise i sugest CCE or TMPGenc for vcd/svcd creation.
Hope this helps
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Cyph