Video Capture

[Dave Sunter]

Hi Guys,

Could someone tell me what capture device is best for capturing TV? I've
seen lots of TV episodes for Download from the US which are extremely good
quality AVI's. I want to convert some of my Home Video using this technique
to DVD. Any Suggestions? Prices?

Many Thanks


Dave

 

[Brian]

Take a look at www.dvdrhelp (click on capture cards on left of screen)
you can select what type of video capture card you are wanting by
clicking on the options you want. You'll then get a list of video
capture cards that have been rated by users.

Regards Brian

 

[Dave Sunter]

Many Thanks Brian

Dave

Take a look at www.dvdrhelp (click on capture cards on left of screen)
you can select what type of video capture card you are wanting by
clicking on the options you want. You'll then get a list of video
capture cards that have been rated by users.

Regards Brian

 

[Brian]

That should be www.dvdrhelp.com (I missed the com off ther end)

Regards Brian

 

[CzarKasM]

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm

Get that, I've heard nothing but great things about their pvr 250 and 350.
I'd really go with the 350 because it has hardware decoding. Hope this
helps

 

[J. Clarke]

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm

Get that, I've heard nothing but great things about their pvr 250 and 350.
I'd really go with the 350 because it has hardware decoding. Hope this
helps

The problem with those boards is that you can't get uncompressed output out
of them (this is not a driver issue--the chips they use do not provide any
method by which uncompressed data may be extracted) and you're stuck with
the compression algorithms built into the chips. If that suits your
purpose they're lovely, if not then they're not. Read about them on
avsforum.com before buying--a $60 Compro might be a better bet in some
cases.

 

[ed]

as in reply further down, skip the cards, go with a separate box TV-PVR 2.0
USB tv tuner/capture. Plugs in easily, captures up to MPEG-2 for DVD
quality, and is $90.00 at tiger direct. I used mine with a Radeon 8500LE.

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