TV Wonder VE: Hook Up a VCR Without S-VIDEO Input?

[Jack Danniel]

Hello.

I'm interested in converting my video tape to CD or DVD format.

Best Buy has the ATI TV WONDER VE TV Tuner and Video Capture for PC on
sale for a reasonable price.

After doing a small amount of research, I found out this particular
card does not have S-VIDEO input. It does have composite input,
however.

A simple question: Do I need S-VIDEO input to hook up a VCR? The VCR
isn't even stereo...it has an RCA video out jack and an RCA audio out
jack.

I'm not even interested in the TV tuner options--I just want to
convert videotape to CD/DVD. So, will this card be acceptable?

Thank you.

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[Villain]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:44:18 -0400, Jack Danniel <[email protected]>
wrote:
Greets,

Looking at the back of my TV Wonder VE, it has a CATV (co-ax) in, a
composite in and an audio out. IIRC, the audio in goes in to your
sound cards line in.

I never tried video capture, for two reasons:

1. I got the card to be able to watch the news in my home office,
and...

2. The card was extremely "wonky" on my system. I futzed around with
it a couple of days and removed it. It has been sitting on a shelf
since.

There are, from what I understand, much better capture cards out
there.

Hope this helps in some small way.

Villain

"I've had a wonderful evening...unfortunately, this wasn't it."
-Groucho-

 

[Mangyrat]

your better off getting a WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe.
it works. and is not bad on price $43.89

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=14-122-132&DEPA=1

 

[Jack Danniel]

One simple question: Why? <grin>

Jd

your better off getting a WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe.
it works. and is not bad on price $43.89

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=14-122-132&DEPA=1

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[Mangyrat]

if you get the tv wonder ve youl like it but down the road your gona start
wanting more out of it than it can do. then youl get a new tv card and end
up wasting the old one.

i have the tv wonder EV and its colecting dust now days.

also the tv2000 comes whit all the junk youl need to plug in your vcr
camcorder or whatever.
why not get a card that will do more and is a littel better for around the
same price?

 

[Sir Edward Jones-Dome]

Because the resolution is limited to 320x240 on the VE as opposed to 680x480
on most other cards. When you factor in the quality loss that has already
occured when the VCR capture was done you will wind up with a pretty crappy
final product. The VE is also limited to mono sound. The previous post
that said owning the VE will soon lead to the desire to upgrade to a better
card was correct. I've had a VE, a Pixilview card, and I'm now using a TV
Wonder pro. You see a lot of complaints on this NG about the ATI software
and I agree to a certain extent. Right now I'm using the TV Wonder pro,
Intervideo DVR software for TV tuning and capture, and Titan TV to schedule
recording. This combo gives me near-perfect capture quality that looks very
good when displayed on my 31" tv (using the TV-out on my Radeon 9600 pro).
I hope this helps.
--
Sir Edward Jones-Dome

"Now the game is clear, there is no longer any possibility of an alliance
with the Anglo-Saxons. We can see the next war panning out- Europe against
America. We'll be reconciled with the Fritzes. We will be a very strong
alliance...When I am in power, I shall ask Russia for time to reorganize
after the war without her intervention.. .I shall then have accomplished
what Hitler failed to do- become the master of Europe."
Charles DeGaulle, 1943.