Capturing movies from Cable TV Channels directly on DVD RW..

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Capturing movies from Cable TV Channels directly on DVD RW medium
The Equipment I have : Pentium IV motherboard 1024MB RAM, ATI Radeon
AIW 8500 DV, Sony DVD RW DRU 540-A
The Software for live TV capture: ATI MMC 7.1, for authoring and
burning DVD: Sonic MyDVD 5, NeroVision Express 3
My Objective: Capture live TV broadcast directly on DVD+R or DVD RW

Each of the above HW or SW components works on my computer system
independently. I can capture a live TV program on HARD DISK in AVI or
mpeg-2 format , using ATI's TV Tuner in the MMC or recorded on VCR
tape using the composite source Option.
Similarly, the NeroVision Express 3 to author and burn TV programs
recorded on my hard disk or on a VCR tape.
But I am interested in using the DVD Writer on my PC for recording
movies directly on a DVD RW medium. This option is available in
NeroVision Express 3. But for this purpose, I need to get the channel
of my choice in the video window of NeroVision Express 3 correctly
functioning. But the TV Tuner in NeroVision gives me a video which is
horizontally half, distorted, black and white.
Is this a problem with the software of Nero orthe video capture driver
(ATI Rage Theatre) being used by me?
Does NeroVision use a different TV Tuner form the one provided in the
ATI card? If it is the same, why should the image on any selected
channel be distorted? And why are the options normally available for
tuning a channel not seen in NeroVision's Video Window which permits
only a choice for the source: TV or Composite or S-Video. Or is there
any way to by-pass the Nero's video window while capturing the video?
I don't see any.

Could Nero go Ahead and advise on how to solve this problem or any
correspondent of this Newsgroup familiar with this problem help?
Thanks.

P. Jayant

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this problem is not specific to ATI TV tuner.I use Snapstream and have the same
problem with Nero VisionExpress.
I finally gave up trying to make it work.The help staff at Nero were not very
helpful we exchanged emails for about 2 weeks with me following their
instructions to the letter and finally they did not respond anymore.I got pissed
off cancelled my payment ...boy did they respond fast then but still were not
able to solve the problem and I still have not paid.
peter
"jayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in> wrote in message
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> Capturing movies from Cable TV Channels directly on DVD RW medium
> The Equipment I have : Pentium IV motherboard 1024MB RAM, ATI Radeon
> AIW 8500 DV, Sony DVD RW DRU 540-A
> The Software for live TV capture: ATI MMC 7.1, for authoring and
> burning DVD: Sonic MyDVD 5, NeroVision Express 3
> My Objective: Capture live TV broadcast directly on DVD+R or DVD RW
>
> Each of the above HW or SW components works on my computer system
> independently. I can capture a live TV program on HARD DISK in AVI or
> mpeg-2 format , using ATI's TV Tuner in the MMC or recorded on VCR
> tape using the composite source Option.
> Similarly, the NeroVision Express 3 to author and burn TV programs
> recorded on my hard disk or on a VCR tape.
> But I am interested in using the DVD Writer on my PC for recording
> movies directly on a DVD RW medium. This option is available in
> NeroVision Express 3. But for this purpose, I need to get the channel
> of my choice in the video window of NeroVision Express 3 correctly
> functioning. But the TV Tuner in NeroVision gives me a video which is
> horizontally half, distorted, black and white.
> Is this a problem with the software of Nero orthe video capture driver
> (ATI Rage Theatre) being used by me?
> Does NeroVision use a different TV Tuner form the one provided in the
> ATI card? If it is the same, why should the image on any selected
> channel be distorted? And why are the options normally available for
> tuning a channel not seen in NeroVision's Video Window which permits
> only a choice for the source: TV or Composite or S-Video. Or is there
> any way to by-pass the Nero's video window while capturing the video?
> I don't see any.
>
> Could Nero go Ahead and advise on how to solve this problem or any
> correspondent of this Newsgroup familiar with this problem help?
> Thanks.
>
> P. Jayant

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"jayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in> wrote in message
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> My Objective: Capture live TV broadcast directly on DVD+R or DVD RW

I'm new to Ulead's software, but DVD Movie Factory 3 has a "Direct To Disc"
option.
From the What's New section: "With the Direct to disc feature, you can capture
your videos and burn them directly onto a disc."

When I launch it on my Sony Vaio desktop PC, the only available source is "SMRT
capture" and DMF can't connect to the SMRT Capture driver.
There is a screen snapshot of a "ATI Rage Theat..." card source tuned to TV
Channel 39 in the Ulead docs.

You may have more luck with your TV Tuner/Capture card.
I may need to find a way to send my Sony Giga Pocket TV Output to my i.Link
(IEEE-1394) interface to use this Direct To Disc option.
I'd like to capture to DVD media directly too, if possible, without having to
save the entire recording on harddisk first.