Another question on Video Editing

[Vaughn Treude]

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