Where can I learn about Video capture, transferring and recordng?
What video card do I need? How much?
I recently got a RAID 0 configuration in my machine and have 50 gigs of free space. I hear this is a good setup for video capture. Is the quality that much lower and harder then DVD conversions? |
@ audi2honda,
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If your source is: VHS/Cable/Attenna/Satellite, then yes, quality is not as good as DVD source. As for Satellite, quality will VARY from tv program to tv program, as well as from Sat Provider to Sat providers too, as well as the Source Quality being aired, to Source Quality being aired. Some channels are better than others in terms of quality. And, some soure types ie, Movies come in a better quality. It will just depend FIRSTLY on your provider ie, I hear that DishNetwork is louzier than DirecTV (I have DirecTV, and lots of things are in pretty good quality, bot NOT great quality as I once believed) As always, Analog Captures will look great when you view them inside apps like vdub and so forth, but once encoded, is another beast, because they are unstable ie, IVTC, Interlaced, Screwed up IVTC etc etc. and you'll soon learn this all out, if you can beaf it out as you go along. Video Capturing is a FUN endeavor. I've ben doing it for many years. I stick to my opinion, that there's nothing better than an Analog Capture vs DV. with Analog, you have many options which leads quality further, ie, uncompressed = lossless wearas, DV is lossy, due to its' compression. BUT, there are some DV devices that do an excellent job at capturing, aka Transfer via Firewire. For example, I have the ADVC-100 device. It's the best device out there for what you want to do, and w/ ZERO framedrops, audio sync etc etc. My recommendations are thus... If you want 100% trouble-free Video Endeavors, go get a ~$300 ADVC-100, else regret, and start out w/ an Analog Capture card. I've ben there, and done it all. I've got so many capture devices, the list is too long, even those that I bouhght and quickly returned. I tell this, if you go w/ an Analog capture device, you'll have issues that will sway you from your fun, but if you heed my advice (wisdom) go w/ the ADVC-100 !! Leave the Analog to those who experienced it for a long time, like myself :wink: I got all the headaches for you, if you can handle them :wink: With my ADVC-100, I can dup a DVD exactly, but thats because the source is in very good quality to begin with. But, it was exciting to see how the quality would compare to DVD rip. It another alternative to your OWNED dvd movies. It's amazing what this device can do, and w/out any hitch of heacheachs !! But, the choice, of course, is your :) But do give it some thought, as you plan your options/goals out !! G8)8)D luck, -vhelp |
I "STRONGLY" suggest a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 :!:
All the reviews are just great. The card captures directly to MPEG-1/2, so no need to use HuffYUV. You can capture 720x480 at an extremely high bitrate, and you'll save way more space than if you capture to AVI. Search this forum for user: "Dano", and you'll see some of his posts related to this card. Not to mention that the card barely consumes CPU, because of the on-board hardware encoder chip. So you can browse the web, even encode something with tmpeg at the same you're capturing 8O and you won't drop frames :!: That's something you just can't do with a regular capture card, specially at 720x480 :cool: -kwag |
Kwag, PVR 250
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You will drop frames. Until USB 2.0 devices start to appear, stick to PCI boards. Quote:
Check this site, which is related to PVR 250: http://www.shspvr.com/ -kwag |
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Kwag,
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Why last question :mrgreen: From the back of the box: WinTV-PVR-250 Model 980 I paid ~139.95 for mine at OfficeMax. -kwag |
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The review also said 90% of the software with the card and the remote won't work without a cable box. Do you know anything about this? With the present card, I use virtualvcr instead of the card's software. I suppose to utilize the hardware encoder I'll have to use its software. I really intend to use it only for captures to mpeg2 for DVD2AVI use - same as a DVD. Do you forsee any difficulties in this? |
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Just capture at the highest bitrate, I believe it's ~12Mbps, and then run your mpeg file through DVD2AVI to make your .d2v, and encode your KVCDs ;) -kwag |
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