Capturing video

[Rastalovich]

If u were to have a Gfx card with vivo, that works well, on a pc that`s put aside to do nothing more than do that sort of task. Decent sound card in it.

Although to get anything of real quality u have to capture without compression and do u`r codec compression aftwards, the pc does nothing but this, so there`s no time issue. Storage is not at a premium so ~1g per minute of video isn`t an issue either.

Would u necessarily bother putting a TV card in, who`s sole purpose would be to do this exact job ?

 

[Rastalovich]

My feelings were "meh" also tbh. Don`t see the point.

 

[FarFarAway]

Not sure what ya mean - all TV cards have to code the signal to something

 

[nunzio]

depends, if you are capturing a tv stream, you will need a decoding chip, aka a tv card. But you could use an old VCR with a scart socket to do this, and just capture the rgb/svideo stream, also works well with a cheap freeview box to make a dvr.

 

[Rastalovich]

Well, I have a Gigabyte NV6600GT with vivo. U plug u`r sky+ or whatever into the svhs input and u get a 720 x 576 from the source. Using something like Virtual VCR u can capture the input, twin it with u`r soundcard inputs.

Thing I was leaning towards here, is that if that`s all u`r gonna do, the tv-card, winTV or whatever, wouldn`t really be necessary. Especially if that`s all that particular pc does.

 

[nunzio]

Aye.. you wouldnt need a tv card for that.. I used to do something like that with my old pc til it melted.

 

[Rastalovich]

Holy thread revival!

Neh, I`ve found what I reall need/want, getting a Canopus DV Capture box. Whatever-the-heck-u-want input and firewire output, powered by firewire.

$214 but what the heck, do a fair bit of it, or trying to, and don`t have to put up with pita tv/dv pci cards and their issues.

 

[jabski]

Neh, I`ve found what I reall need/want, getting a Canopus DV Capture box. Whatever-the-heck-u-want input and firewire output, powered by firewire.

$214 but what the heck, do a fair bit of it, or trying to, and don`t have to put up with pita tv/dv pci cards and their issues.

might have a look at one of these