Not on that Hauppauge card. it inputs video/audio only. You have to
Darn
That's what I was afraid of. I just looked at the stock video card in
my Dell 4100 and it doesn't have any video OUTS at all.
Arent there any Hauppauge PVR cards that also have video outputs as
well?
Or....any PVR cards period that have video outs?
Or is one expected to use a SEPARATE video card with video outputs in
conjunction with these PVR cards?
As you can tell....Im a bit confused on all this. <G>
Hi,
There are some analog video hardware encoder + hardware decoder PCI
cards available and I think that's what you are looking for:
1) Navis-Pro (
www.pentamedia.com)
2) Hauppauge PVR-350 (not the PVR-250)
3) MPG150i/160 (
www.yuan.com.tw)
I believe all these capture cards use the same encoder/decoder chip
(ivac15/16)
so basically they would have the same features and similar encoding
quality. The different is the software.
I have the Navis-Pro so I will comment more on this particular card.
Basically you can capture VCD/SVCD/MPEG1/MPEG2 (full D1 or half D1 -
NTSC or PAL) in real time. Some of the cards above also have built on
TV tunner so you can watch/capture TV/Cable boardcast. You can either
output the capture video (or play a pre-captured video files from
hardrive/cd/dvd) to PC monitor OR to an external video monitor (TV).
You can pause the video and resume watching it while without missing
any part of the source video (time-slip feature). I don't know for
sure the number of input/output options for card #2 & #3. But on the
Navis-Pro there are: both RCA & S-video + audio (L/R) inputs and both
RCA & S-video + audio (L/R) output. So you don't need video output
connector from your primary video card.
You don't need a high-end (fast) PC to use one of the above card. My
CPU is an Athlon 2400XP and the processor usage while capturing is
under 10% (output to external video monitor/TV - via buit-in hardware
decoder) but around 40% if view on PC monitor (via software decoder).
By the way, one of my friend PC is a Duron 800Mhz and his PCU usage is
not much differ than mine.