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I bought an Irez USBLive cable a couple of years ago, and use it hooked up to my VCR and old notebook PC. WMEncoder9 has a ton of profiles included, and one can build new ones easily enough by editing an existing profile and saving it as a file. I tend to encode movies using the basic 'DualISDN' profile found under Custom Settings, with the audio bumped up to 22kbps. It's a fullscreen 240x320 profile, and results in video files which average around 12fps, with some breaking up during fast action scenes but generally very clear appearance. Supposed to be 15fps, but I think my old Acer PIII 600 with only 192MB of RAM is at fault here. I have to defrag just before trying to catch a whole movie, or it'll just crash.
Anyway, just saying the stock profiles aren't all there is. You can tweak the bandwidth all you want in Custom settings, both audio and video rates. My movies end up around 70MB/90 minutes, so I can have two or three movies on a 256MB CF card and still have lots of room for other stuff. Oh, and for some reason the only save option I get in WME9 is ASF, which is fine, as WMP plays those just fine.
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