The time it takes to burn DVDs 107

The DVD Standard supports several formats besides 720x480.

MPEG1: NTSC 352x240 PAL 352x288

MPEG2: NTSC 352x240(352x480 IMHO the Best for most home sources and a normal analog display Interlaced TV) 704x480 720x480

PAL 352x288 (352x576 should be the PAL version best for TV-VCR) 704x576 720x576

Audio: MPEG-1 Audio Layer2(.mp2) Dolby Digital Audio AC-3 (.ac3) Linear PCM (.wav)

Nero has a tendency to limit what you can do by forcing a totally unnecessary encoding using their encoder. TDA has no video encoder.

While the initial impression of the Menu creation ability of TDA appears limited in comparison to some others, nothing could be further from the truth. Once you make your own menu theme, TDA provides a great deal of support for the very easy manipulation of the menu's features. All the graphic features of the TDA menu structure can be replaced by those of your own making.

You must have a high power system with the through put optimized, to be able to use those parameters and not have problems. The encoding is taking place as you capture, in "real time". No further encoding is needed. All that you might want to do is remove some commercials (adverts) which can be easily done in TDA or if you want to do frame accurate MPEG editing you could use VideoReDo or a Womble product on the MPEG files before feeding them to TDA.

There are most likely other capture programs for your card, try the user comments for that card at www.videohelp.com . There are sure to be some that allow you more control over the capture parameters.