Direct TV MPEG CAPTURE

Finally get to post something on the site:D Well I have been absorbing myself in my new ATI9800 All-In-Wonder video card. I have been following all the guides reading forums from this site and many others. I think this site is the most legit though:sly: But I digress. Here is my dilema for all you DVB JEDI KNIGHT capture warriors: I just recorded Seabiscut which is 2hr 20minutes. I used Pinacle Studio 8.10 and I recorded in MPEG2 format 720X480 with digital Audio. The entire file size is 6.6gigs in the raw. My ultimate goal is to get this to DVD format which is limited to 4.7gigs. Someone steer me in the right direction. Is 6.6gigs for 140minutes correct? Should I be recording in *.AVI format instead? When I use TMPG DVD Author and then CloneDVD it looks like I am watching LEGO blocks. The video is really really poor. So I ask you 1. should I be capturing in a different format to get the file size down? 2. Should I use a different capture utility for DVB like MPEG_VCR or FLYCAP Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Need more info. I assume that you captured from a DVD or VHS. If you captured from DVD, then it might be best to do a DVD copy operation, and visit a more appropriate forum, like "one click dvd backup." If your capture was from VHS, I'd do it differently, ie, I'd capture using Huffy codec, clean it, then encode to MPEG using an appropriate program. Your problem maybe two-fold: you can't adjust the bit-rate; your capture resolution is too high, ie use 352x40 rather than 720x480. Your project would fit if it were 352x480. Just my thoughts.

DVB From Direct TV Satellite 

I am capturing the S-Video Output of my Direct TV Satellite reciever to the S-Video input of my AIW. I will look around for AIW and see what those people are doing. Thanks for the advice.

If you are satisfied with the quality, author it with IfoEdit and shrink it down automatically with DVDShrink - done! You may have to demux the mpeg to seperate audio and video streams first if you captured to one.

Quality 

I am happy with quality when playing from PC but when I created the DVD it looked really poor. I will try the DVDSHRINK IFOEDIT technique and let you know. Thanks for the advice.