I have a couple of questions for you:

Can you play it back on your TV, or are you stuck watching it on the PC
monitor?
How good does it look (on TV or PC)?

I am doing something similar with Smallville, but I am using my DVCamcorder
as a pass through for a VCR to record the show. (I plan on getting a
standalone analog to DV conversion box next year so my DVCam won't be tied
up every Tuesday at 8!)  I edit out commercials and convert it to VCD format
to watch on my DVD player.  The only problem with this is that the initial
storage requirements are quite hefty.  1 hour of video weighs in at about
13GB!  The final VCD format file weighs in at about 10MB/minute.

Later,
Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jason Clinton
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:52 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: PVRs
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> quality setting, I can store 1 hour of video in 120 MB in DivX
> 5.0 format at
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