Can someone please advise? I've assembled some legacy hardware:
ASUS P3V133 (Latest BIOS and chipset drivers loaded - AGP2x, 4in1, Ultraa66, etc.)
PIII-800/256/133
3 x 256MB/133 CL2 RAM
CMedia (5.1 surround AC87 comp.)
Toshiba DVD-ROM (SD1502)
Sony DRU-501 DVD-R/W
Fujitsu 8.4GB HD (MBR & OS)
WD800 80GB HD (recording space)
SW:
XP-SP2 w/MMC-7.2, PowerDVD 5.0, WDM 6.133, DirX 9.0c
W98SE w/MMC-5.3 (? out-of-box CD-ROM), PowerDVD XP v4.0, Original out-of-box drivers w/DirX 7, 8 & 9 codex upgrades (tested at each upgrade step)
Despite using default resultion settings or variations thereupon, Digital VCR will not generate MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files that playback at 1:1 speed on my Philips Home DVD unit. In fact, the best I could muster was 3:4 when recording on HIGH QUALITY (W98SE - MMC5.3) 640 x 480 MPEG-1 with all other settings at default. Any fine tweaking of frames, sample rate, resolution or file format (MPEG-2) would reduce playback to as little as 1:2 or simply leave the DVD-R/W inaccessible to the Philips unit, not PowerDVD. Meanwhile, PowerDVD does replay the MPEG files at normal speed.
Unexpectedly, W98SE & MMC-5.3 w/DirX 7 seems capture better than XP-SP2 and MMC-7.2 (I must be overlooking something
). Alas, the overhead and system requirements needed for MMC and its utils makes W98 very constraining, or is it vise-versa?
Any sage recommendations?? Thanks in advance,
MrCub
ASUS P3V133 (Latest BIOS and chipset drivers loaded - AGP2x, 4in1, Ultraa66, etc.)
PIII-800/256/133
3 x 256MB/133 CL2 RAM
CMedia (5.1 surround AC87 comp.)
Toshiba DVD-ROM (SD1502)
Sony DRU-501 DVD-R/W
Fujitsu 8.4GB HD (MBR & OS)
WD800 80GB HD (recording space)
SW:
XP-SP2 w/MMC-7.2, PowerDVD 5.0, WDM 6.133, DirX 9.0c
W98SE w/MMC-5.3 (? out-of-box CD-ROM), PowerDVD XP v4.0, Original out-of-box drivers w/DirX 7, 8 & 9 codex upgrades (tested at each upgrade step)
Despite using default resultion settings or variations thereupon, Digital VCR will not generate MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files that playback at 1:1 speed on my Philips Home DVD unit. In fact, the best I could muster was 3:4 when recording on HIGH QUALITY (W98SE - MMC5.3) 640 x 480 MPEG-1 with all other settings at default. Any fine tweaking of frames, sample rate, resolution or file format (MPEG-2) would reduce playback to as little as 1:2 or simply leave the DVD-R/W inaccessible to the Philips unit, not PowerDVD. Meanwhile, PowerDVD does replay the MPEG files at normal speed.
Unexpectedly, W98SE & MMC-5.3 w/DirX 7 seems capture better than XP-SP2 and MMC-7.2 (I must be overlooking something
). Alas, the overhead and system requirements needed for MMC and its utils makes W98 very constraining, or is it vise-versa?Any sage recommendations?? Thanks in advance,
MrCub
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