Best ATI capture card to use in my workflow?
This question is mostly directed at LS who just sold me a great VHS digitization workflow, but other advice is welcome. I have an early 2000s PC that I built with Windows XP and an ATI PCI capture card as well as an AGP ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro. (It was a monster back in the day. I pre-ordered the first SATA hard drives on the market and put them in a Raid 0 with the RAID chipset built into the ASUS workstation motherboard. It had dual channel DDR before that was really a thing. I'd love to put it back to work.) Both the AGP and PCI cards have capture ability and as I recall the quality was the same. Any idea between those two and the ATI USB 2.0 capture card you sent what will be the best? I'm leaning towards MPEG2 encoding on the fly to make the time commitment manageable. The recordings on the PCI and AGP cards always seemed slightly washed out to me, if my recollection from about 15 years ago is accurate. Have you run into that?
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At this late date, I think the most impressive builds are based on that Asrock setup like I have, and a few others here have cloned. Even now, that motherboard is in the $75-125 range. But, bragging rights aside, what you have should work well. My only concern would be the old SATA-1 limit on drive drive size, well under 1tb from what I remember. Somewhat limiting. Of course, a PCI SATA2 can be added for bigger drives (though not really speed). Quote:
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You need to check and see what the cards are. :unsure: |
The AGP card sounds like it had the Theater 200 chip:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1025/4 The PCI card is an ATI TV Wonder Pro. Not sure what chip that has. |
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Google image search shows it. Pull the card to verify. In fact, just pull the card, period, no need to waste airflow space, electricity on it. :wink2: |
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