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hi,

can someone please recommed a good video capture card.
TIA
 
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On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:38:29 +0100, "azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote:

>hi,
>
>can someone please recommed a good video capture card.
>TIA
>

For capturing what, from what, to what?
 
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VHS to a Personel Computer
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> On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:38:29 +0100, "azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote:
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> >hi,
> >
> >can someone please recommed a good video capture card.
> >TIA
> >
>
> For capturing what, from what, to what?
 
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azher wrote:
> VHS to a Personel Computer
> "Laurence Payne" <l@laurenceDELETEpayne.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:38:29 +0100, "azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote:


Out of all top posters, here we have a sample of the most infamous
kind... The one that can't be bothered to even insert a line feed! :)


-WD
 
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Try decaff... ;-)

On Sun, 09 May 2004 15:09:27 GMT, Will Dormann
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>azher wrote:
>> VHS to a Personel Computer
>> "Laurence Payne" <l@laurenceDELETEpayne.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>>On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:38:29 +0100, "azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote:
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>Out of all top posters, here we have a sample of the most infamous
>kind... The one that can't be bothered to even insert a line feed! :)
>
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>-WD
 
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"azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> can someone please recommed a good video capture card.
> TIA
>

Check out the listings at www.dvdrhelp.com

The Adaptec VideOh! PCI AVC-2000 is/was a great card
but it is no longer in production.

The Plextor Connectx with hardware DivX/MPEG4 encoding
looks interesting. I wish it were available as a pci card and
could transcode from files also.

Canopus makes a good MPEG capture card but it's costly,
~$500. It has some impressive pre-encoding filters, including
a TBC function.

Luck;
Ken
 
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oh can someone please just give me a suggestion... i ws thinking of WIN
TV go but was unsure on resolution as i want one that can have good qulaity
once burned on to a DVD or VCD.

azher
 
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On Sun, 9 May 2004 15:46:21 +0100, "azher" <khan@pipex.com> wrote:

>VHS to a Personel Computer

If you want picture and sound to stay in synch, the Canopus ADVC100.
If drift doesn't matter, there are considerably cheaper solutions.
 
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"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> writes:

[...]

> The Plextor Connectx with hardware DivX/MPEG4 encoding
> looks interesting. I wish it were available as a pci card and
> could transcode from files also.

[...]

Excuse me for butting in here:
I'm guessing you meant `ConvertX' not `ConnectX'. But not sure I
understand why a pci hookup would be better than USB 2. Would it
move data much quicker?
 
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"Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > The Plextor Connectx with hardware DivX/MPEG4 encoding
> > looks interesting. I wish it were available as a pci card and
> > could transcode from files also.
>
> [...]
>
> Excuse me for butting in here:
> I'm guessing you meant `ConvertX' not `ConnectX'. But not sure I
> understand why a pci hookup would be better than USB 2. Would it
> move data much quicker?

Right I guess it's "ConvertX", M402 I think. I ran across a post by one
of the Plextor development guys. He was responding to someone's request
for an ability to transcode files on a hard drive through the box. His
position
was that they would have to make it a PCI card to implement such a feature.
A guess on my part would be that the full speed bi-directional operation
would
work better with the PCI bus interface provided to the PCI slots; than going
through the USB2 interface. I doubt that it is quicker in terms of a simple
capture, as the specs for the USB2 boxes often even allow higher bitrates
than
the equivalent PCI card. Don't know why that is the case, as both capture
and
encode prior to sending anything over either interface.

Luck;
Ken
 

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thx for all your segedtions but one prob.... i live in uk so will have to
see if what you have said is avaiable.... thanks again.
azher
 

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and also it was for home use.... and realy just for home movies. so possible
bit out my league for time being but ure thoughts have been wellsomed
 
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> can someone please recommed a good video capture card.

see www.deja.com and search for hundreds of prior posts on this exact
same topic.

basically, any WinTV or ATI All-In-Wonder card (older ones) selling
for $20-50 on www.ebay.com will do fine on a modern 2Ghz+ PC capturing
720x480 resolution video at 30fps in DV/MJPEG/Huffyuv codec formats to
the hard drive w/o any problems at all.

If you look at http://www.virtualdub.org/docs_capture you will see
that the author of the recommended VirtualDub says his program can do
captures with even less powerful PCs.

I'd go for at least an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 card for about $20-40 on
www.ebay.com because it has Windows XP support, and does the job just
fine (I've even tested down to ATI AIW original, and even that'll do
fine, but it only has Windows 98 support.).

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&sokeywordredirect=1&from=R8&ht=1&satitle=all-in-wonder+128