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Fx 5600 ultra and what TV card works?
HI,
I am running a Hyperthreading 2.4 P4 and a PNY FX 5600 ultra vid card with two monitors and windows xp pro. Has anyone had a similar set up with a PCI TV tuner card that worked well? It would seem that these things just dont work to well together these days. I want to shedule TV recordings at good to great quality. Then edit out the commercials and burn them to watch later on VCD. The New ATI card sounds good, but I am hesitant to use ATI with Nvidia Detonator drivers installed. NVIDIA states that in order to utilize the Personal Cinema Drivers you need the cards designed with it utilizing a proprietery interface. Oh Well. I have tried the MSI TV @nywhere (before the hyperthreading fix) it sucked raw. The software blew.... locked up constantly, every time. I salvaged an old STB TV PCI and got it to work with DScaler, but the recording part is tuff. Demos dont seem to work. That intervideo seems to realy suck. and nothing seems to run where I can use it as a viewer and a recorder. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, KY, |
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I wouldn't really worry about the brand of the card or the software they
come with. It all comes down to the tuner and the chipset. For years the bt848/878 chipset has been pretty much the standard, (Prolink Pixelview, Leadtek 2000XP, STB etc). Conexant has recently released a new chip the CX23880 chip (MSI TV@nywhere, ASUS TV tuner) that looks like an improvement. Pretty much all the programs that come with the cards are downright pathetic. My Pixelview card, I wouldn't even put the CD in my drive the contents are so bad. Many far better 3rd party programs exist with much better capture capabilities. The ones i've had most luck with are VirtualVCR, VirutalDub(Mod), PowerVCR, but analog capturing is really a bit of an artform, and you've gotta get a handle on drivers, compression codecs, audio sync etc. My advice to you would be keep the STB card (for now), get the btwdmdrv drivers http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/, you've already got DScaler for watching TV, get VirtualDubMod for capturing. Seemed I had the best capture results with VDubMod (least sync problems), using either the PicVideo MJPEG codec or the hufyuv codec. |
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I stuck the fx5600 I had into roomies box when I went ATI 9800 pro and on
his system his old hauppage program and card works just fine. Actually watched him use MiBao using the universal driver that comes with the fx cards for capture and hes even doing on the fly compression and their coming out great. "Chimera" wrote in message ... I wouldn't really worry about the brand of the card or the software they come with. It all comes down to the tuner and the chipset. For years the bt848/878 chipset has been pretty much the standard, (Prolink Pixelview, Leadtek 2000XP, STB etc). Conexant has recently released a new chip the CX23880 chip (MSI TV@nywhere, ASUS TV tuner) that looks like an improvement. Pretty much all the programs that come with the cards are downright pathetic. My Pixelview card, I wouldn't even put the CD in my drive the contents are so bad. Many far better 3rd party programs exist with much better capture capabilities. The ones i've had most luck with are VirtualVCR, VirutalDub(Mod), PowerVCR, but analog capturing is really a bit of an artform, and you've gotta get a handle on drivers, compression codecs, audio sync etc. My advice to you would be keep the STB card (for now), get the btwdmdrv drivers http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/, you've already got DScaler for watching TV, get VirtualDubMod for capturing. Seemed I had the best capture results with VDubMod (least sync problems), using either the PicVideo MJPEG codec or the hufyuv codec. |
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