I wanna put my all time favorites the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones Trilogy on DVD. I have them on VHS, and wanted to know what to buy. I was wondering if the ATI TV Wonder could do it? I wasnt sure though if it could handle a whole movie, or just short clips, and i also want sure about the audio part of it?

Aren't they both available on DVD?? If so then I would think that the answer as to what to buy would be the DVD's.

Pretty much any capture card is capable of capturing entire movies, provided that your system and HDD are upto it.

As for the audio, you can just use your soundcard.

I believe they are only available in PAL format over in UK. I know I've seen the Indiana Jones in PAL formated DVD, but both are not available in the US.

Now it says the ATI TV Wonder capture video in AVI format. Does this mean its going to be huge files, like 500MB a minute, or something huge like that? And when I'm capturing this, does it capture (save) the audio at the same time?

Also i have a 40Gig HDD, but only about 20gigs are free for the DVD stuff, and its on a FAT32 partition, so I dunno how that gunna work?

Well using something like VirtualDub it is possible to do a segmented capture.

HuffyUV with PCM audio is around 400MB's/min at 768x576x25fps... Don't know about NTSC.

thats way too complicated. or will take too much time.

Is there another capture card i could use, do any of them use MPEG or something smaller than uncompressed AVI?

Virtualdub isn't compatible with ATI cards, I tried it. let me know if this changed.

Give me an ATI card and I will tell you.

If you are using huffyuv then it is not an uncompresed file.
There are hardware mpeg2 encoder cards, but good one's are expensive, it would be easier and cheaper just to buy the PAL DVD's and convert them to NTSC, although there are also possible software MPEG2 capture possibilites.

Also about the ATI cards, I would not think that it would be VirtualDub that is the problem, if they don't work then it is because they don't have any decent WDM/VFW drivers.

I live in the United States and I personally use a dazzle dvc 150 high speed usb (v 2.0) to capture old videos to dvd. It works awesome with a usb 2.0 port. As for file sizes each video I have done ranges between 3 and 3.5 gigs total. The unit comes with a dvd encoder which is supposed to compress the file a bit to save space. I have done 4 videos with this so far and they have turned out quite well. I know this whole video capture thing can be quite confusing as I went through it myself but this solution seems to be the best one that I have found personally.
Hope this helps