A graphics card with video capture

"Hupjack" hupjack_nospamtoday_yahoo.com wrote in message
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so I guess there is more out there than just the badass $260 Canopus
ADVC-100 and the AIW cards.
I gotta admit, I'm really tempted by the $30 PNY GeForce4 MX440. I could
also get one of these external USB deals, and I'd still be at less than
half
the price of a Radeon 9600XT.

If you want to capture your own VHS tapes about any capture card should
work. If you want to capture prerecorded VHS tapes it would be a good idea
to research Macrovision copy protection.

Hupjack wrote:

good lord... here's that 8500DV again...
http://tinyurl.com/2qkf2 - fricken $99, but without the remote.. Coming
with an RF remote is groovy.. This white box has more than the newegg
refurb but still no remote.. This fricken card is a monster.. it has two
firewire ports too? It's got everything but the kitchen sink!!

Careful: people have complained the firewire doesn't work on that one.

"Hupjack" hupjack_nospamtoday_yahoo.com wrote in message ...
For those of you that have already read my plight, I'll keep this short.
I mistakenly got an A7V8X-X instead of the A7N8X-X, so I'm just going to
build another computer around the Via board, sell it, and get myself the
nForce board that I wanted.

Well I'm short on graphics cards so I'm also going to sell my Asus V7100
GeForce2 with the Via board, and get myself a new AGP card.

I've been wanting to encode some VHS video to digital for a while now, and
while I twiddle my thumbs, my videos are busy decomposing as we speak :-\

I'm looking for a card with video capture, and while I'm busy upgrading, I
figured I might as well prep for a future flat panel display and get a video
card with a DVI output. I also figured since I'm going to have an AGP 8x
motherboard, I might as well get a graphics card to match.

Having read too many posts, I've learned that all sorts of folk over at
rec.video.desktop are ga ga for the $260 Canopus ADVC-100
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=&sku= 244508

I'm pretty sure my analog to digital conversion days will be over once I get
the ones I have lying around converted, so I'm not super keen on investing
$260 for hardware that I'll only use once. Having read post after post
about how great this external box is, I finally found a reference to this
page http://www.digitalfaq.com/othervideo/buyerguide.htm expounding on the
wonders of the ATI all in wonder series for the same purpose. So now I have
some info on using a graphics cards to do the capture.

The Canopus boxes have high resale value, so you'd get back most of
your cost when you sell it. Also, you can get by with the ADVC-50 for
$134, but no D to A, only A to D.

"Hupjack" hupjack_nospamtoday_yahoo.com wrote in message ...
good lord.. this is really a pain in the ass sifting through the billion
different nvidia cards for the ones with video in. Like.. the Asus model
using the Ti4200-8X that has video in is the V9280 VS.. But there are two
other Asus Ti4200-8X cards that don't have it.. Searching for an nvidia
with video in, I feel like I have a 1/3 shot of finding one..

Any smart way to somehow restrict my browsing to cards with video in?

Include "VIVO" in your search terms, (video in, video out)

I almost bought the V9280 VS. The problem with all these video-in
cards is that the audio is brought in separately through the line-in
of the sound card (or on-board sound). There is a problem in copying
analog video tapes to your hard drive (and then onto CDs) where the
audio and video are not in sync. This is the appeal of the Canopus
devices such as the ADVC-50 and ADVC-100. Again, you don't really need
the ADVC-100 for what you're doing, the ADVC-50 will be fine and it's
only $134. You could certainly sell it for $75-100 when you're done
with it.

The Canopus boxes have high resale value, so you'd get back most of
your cost when you sell it. Also, you can get by with the ADVC-50 for
$134, but no D to A, only A to D.

I don't know why I didn't think of that.. Not a bad idea. I could just
resell the canopus when I was done with it. Ahhh the great benefits of eBay
and craiglist. They've really opened up the used market. So great to see
more used goods getting more use instead of collecting dust in garages or
worse, being dumped in landfills when other people want to use them.
Certainly a far more honest way to go than buying some converter from an
electronics store, and then returning it a couple days later after the job
is done. With eBay and craislist, I can get most of my money back and not
be an a-hole :-)

an all too obvious, but Great suggestion!
thanks!