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Recommendation for video capture
I own a Radeon 9700 Pro myself and am not considering video capture at
present, but am helping a buddy build his own PC and he does. Basically he wants to take old video tapes and convert them to DVD and possibly capture on-going shows off his Tivo for conversion to DVD in the same manner. Can anyone point me towards a newsgroup or web forum where the merits of various video capture solutions are discussed or reviewed? Of course, if anyone here has experience and an opinion please bring it on. Thanks, Tim |
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:05:18 GMT
"Tim" wrote: I own a Radeon 9700 Pro myself and am not considering video capture at present, but am helping a buddy build his own PC and he does. Basically he wants to take old video tapes and convert them to DVD and possibly capture on-going shows off his Tivo for conversion to DVD in the same manner. Can anyone point me towards a newsgroup or web forum where the merits of various video capture solutions are discussed or reviewed? Of course, if anyone here has experience and an opinion please bring it on. http://www.avsforum.com http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ Before you do anything else read up on Tivo hacking. There are better ways to get recordings off a Tivo than by playing them back and using analog capture. For analog capture, the ATI All-In-Wonder boards work well, as do the Matrox boards. The Hauppauge PVR series have hardware MPEG encoding, which takes a load off of your system, however the chip they use does not provide for uncompressed capture--if he's planning on doing MPEG caputures exclusively then one of those would be a good choice. Any of the boards that use the Brooktree/Conexant BT8xx series chips would also be a good option, as those chips have a tremendous amount of third-party support--with one of those boards you're not stuck with the board manufacturer's software. One nice compromise is the Dvico FusionHDTV II board--it uses a BT848 chip (IIRC--it's a BT800 series anyway) so all kinds of third party software will work with it for analog capture, but it has a digital tuner and also functions as a high definition TV receiver using the software provided by the manufacturer of the board (the software is not perfect but they are releasing updates regularly). And if you have an ATI Radeon board the Dvico will make good use of it, considerably reducing the workload on the CPU. Thanks, Tim -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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"Tim" wrote in news:ybtub.39476$Dw6.180820@attbi_s02:
I own a Radeon 9700 Pro myself and am not considering video capture at present, but am helping a buddy build his own PC and he does. Basically he wants to take old video tapes and convert them to DVD and possibly capture on-going shows off his Tivo for conversion to DVD in the same manner. Can anyone point me towards a newsgroup or web forum where the merits of various video capture solutions are discussed or reviewed? Of course, if anyone here has experience and an opinion please bring it on. Thanks, Tim Tim, I've been capturing using ADS's USB Instant DVD for about 6 months. My old system was a P4 1.4 ghz, Radeon 9700, 500 mb RAM. I couldn't capture (vcr tapes to pc for burning onto DVD) for more than 5-6 minutes at a time without the machine lagging behind, the video getting choppy then freezing up... I invested in a Dell Dimension XPS a few months ago, and it captures fantastic video, whether from USB I-DVD or digital video from my camcorder. The system specs are P4 2.8 FSB, Radeon 9800 Pro, and a gig of memory. I can capture and entire 2 hours VHS tape with nary a stutter. So there's what worked so-so, and what works great, at least in my own experience. |
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