Another question on Video Editing

While we're on the topic of video editing:
A while back a bought a Hauppage PVR-150 TV/capture card. This was a
replacement for my dearly departed previous Hauppage, which I was able
to get working fairly easily on Linux. (The machine it was in was having
power problems, and the Hauppage suddenly decided to die on me. Thinking
I'd have success again with Hauppage I ordered a new one. I had lots of
trouble getting it to work on Linux, so I gave up and put it on the XP
machine.)

I can use Hauppage's Win TV 2000 program on our XP machine to capture
analog home videos, which I can replay on several different programs on
both Linux and Windoze. Nothing, I repeat, nothing I have tried so far
on either machine has been able to edit these videos. When I finally
did get Cinelerra to work, it produced output files that were without
sound. Same thing goes for the shareware "Easy video splitter" on Win XP.

One possible problem is that I chose the output file format arbitrarily.
I have no idea which output formats are likely to be editable. On
video it has the following options: MPEG1, DVD, VCD, SVCD. On audio
there are three options "MPEG Layer 1", "MPEG Layer 2" and AC-3.
Unfortunately the only one that's not grayed out here is "MPEG Layer 2".
I suspect AC-3 would be a better sound format, because it gets mentioned
a lot on the semi-helpful "how to" files I've read. Am I right about
this, do I need to do the sound as AC-3? Should I choose a different
video format? Should I toss the Hauppage in the canal? :-)

Vaughn
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