Capture card alternatives to the Philips SAA7134 chipset cards ?
Hi lordsmurf,
Now after reading posts from you and the guidelines I started to doubt that I have good capture hardware. I have both Canopus ADVC-300 and Philips SAA7134 chipset based LifeView FlyVideo 3000. Canopus does a very good job capturing more or less crappy VHS. I have no frame drops and audio sync seems to work. I thought quality wise Philips does a good job as well, but it's not as reliable and if VHS is a bit jammed, I get dropped frames. First off, in your opinion looking at images that I posted, are images produced by Philips based tuner card considered excellent quality? What capture device would you recommend so that I can capture in Huffyuv, which wouldn't drop frames, capture from NTSC and PAL (possibly with SECAM too) and would sync audio and video. ATI, Dazzle? Thanks. Now I see people recommend ATI All In Wonder |
Note: Moved from PM to forum, because I think others can give some great input.
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Hello,
I PM-ed before I found the comparison screenshots between ATI, BT and Philips. But still it is great to hear expert's input. There's no TBC between VCR and the capture card. And yes, my computer is old and has IDE. I purchased new hard drive and it seems to work fine if I capture from LaserDisc or even excellent quality VHS. But if VHS is jammed, I get dropped frames and/or capture breaks. I understood about TBC and SATA. Time to upgrade. The audio/video sync with my TV Tuner card is gradual. The audio is either stretched or squeezed depending on what VCR I use, depending on what sound card I use. Usually I can see the pattern depending on VCR/SoundCard combination. For example Samsung VCR and M-Audio soundcard makes audio behind 100 milliseconds after one hour of capturing. If Terratec card is used, then I get only 60 milliseconds behind and so on. This can be corrected, just annoys me to every time stretch/squeeze the WAV file. :) Thank you for your input. |
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Keep in mind that when I capture from LaserDisc with digital sound, I use optical toss link to record sound digitally. In this scenario, I never get sync problems because the sound card doesn't sample the sound but copies it directly. In one hour of video there are discrete number of video frames and discrete number of audio samples stored on LaserDisc. And even if the speed of an LD player deviates from 29.97 fps, this certain number of video frames and the certain number of audio samples get copied to the computer regardless of speed of the player. Thus no sync problems. --Leonid |
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