OT: NHL opening night and my poor man's Tivo

goshep wrote on 10/4/2006, 5:43 AM

I'm setting up my vidcap timer right now to record this afternoon's game (thank you for such a wonderful invention) but now I'm faced with a decision. Do I edit down the recording and render it to a DVD? Or will simply viewing the AVI in media player suffice? I've never previewed such a long AVI so I'm wondering if there will be sync issues over the length of it?? I'd like to save the especially great games to DVD but not a whole 80+ game season. Any thoughts? Any hockey fans? Who's gonna win the cup?

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Cheno wrote on 10/4/2006, 5:52 AM

I'm assuming that you're using Vegas' Vidcap for capture? My only concern with hour + games would be the storage needed when using .avi. Most of the DVRs use a form of MPEG2 capture so albeit compressed, you've got alot more storage spread out plus the option to dial down the quality in exchange for more storage. I guess if you're editing and getting the games right to DVD you're okay. Sync issues shouldn't be a problem although I've never recorded from a tuner into Vidcap, I don't see why it would be any different than other analog capture.

As for hockey, played as a kid, play as an adult and would love to see the Flames just get close enough to taste the finals. Probably will never happen but it's worth a shot.

cheno