TV Anywhere poor video capture quality

I have a Celeron 1.7, 20 and 60 gig hd at 7200 rpm, 512M of ram. My capture is of very poor quality. I have used the MSI software and also Virtual Dub. Still poor video capture quality. Anyone tell me what I can do or how to do this right?
geo-ela

If you use a compressing codec in real time, you need lotsa CPU.
Try using a lossless codec such as Huffyuv (you'll need lotsa disk) for the real time capture and then compress afterwards.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I have very poor video quality after transcoding the video file (MPEG) in Adobe Encore CS5.1. Below you see my used settings in my filmproject.
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Best regards.

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1) I did not only „Automatic (based on source)“ options in my tests, but also many other customized options.
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Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_mpeg2dvd_1.m2v
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Maximum Bitrate (Mbps): 9
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N Frames: 12
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Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_MatchSequenceSettings.mpeg
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