Video Capture cards What are the best

[Wurm]

I am thinking of buying a video capture card
but what are the things were i must look at
and what are the best cards versus price

i want to use the card for recording home video's from my anologe camera so i can put them on cd's
cd's are still cheaper than empty videos :)

[pelligrini]

I have a MATROX MARVEL G450 AGP OEM VERSION 32MB DDR sometimes it's called the E-TV. It's a pretty sweet card. Runs about $190 US. I have a digital cable box hooked up to it in my office so I can watch TV on my second monitor. It does some pretty good recording. I have never used any other capture cards so I really doesn't know how it compares.

It has Coax, S-video and Analog video connections.

[verT]

A friend of mine does a lot of video editing and he swears by Pinacle cards, he alledges they are the best and well for the price they should be many hover around $1000 mark and are well over 1000 up in Canada:(

[Bruce]

I've been considering a digital VCR. So what does anybody think.

I could buy a TiVo and subscribe to their TV Guide service which updates itself intelligently, BTW) or I could just add a TV card and a large drive and some software to an existing PC.

I probably wouldn't take good advantage of the service, so the hardware only approach seems more reasonable.

[Wurm]

A friend of mine does a lot of video editing and he swears by Pinacle cards, he alledges they are the best and well for the price they should be many hover around $1000 mark and are well over 1000 up in Canada:(

yep this is a lot of money
and i don't have it :)
so if anybody would dump his cash in the Save Wurm fund i would be please :D
but i don't think this would happen:(
so i would have to do with a les expensive card

and to pelligrinni
yes i have considered that card but i have seen it is nothing for me because i have to trade in my geforce and dont't like that :)
(i play al lot of games too )

[pelligrini]

Sounds like a good excuse to build another system. :D

One for gaming, one for multimedia.:rolleyes:

[MechCD]

I hear that ATi TV Wonder is good, bit internal and extrenal, but the internal heats up the case fdast :D

haupage looks good too (check spelling ont hat)

Try to get one that has a 60fps capabiltiy and a decent resolution.

the heap ones do 30fps or less at 640x480 or less, that means baaaaad quality BEFORE compression :D

[Bruce]

Originally posted by MechCD
Try to get one that has a 60fps capabiltiy and a decent resolution.

the heap ones do 30fps or less at 640x480 or less, that means baaaaad quality BEFORE compression :D

It seems to me that standard TV signals in the USA are 512x(something) and refresh at essentially 30fps -- actually, I think it is half of the lines (alternate) at 60. I'm not sure the process to make that into whatever the computer understands, but I don't see much reason to increase the bandwidth over what you actually receive.

[MechCD]

Der, theres a reason that i can't remeber... doof! has to do with throughput, not actual capture rate.....

[Wurm]

Sounds like a good excuse to build another system.

One for gaming, one for multimedia

yes it is :)
but then i need to have more money (student arent' rich )
an also the case is that i don't have an rich dad so that won't be a option too :(
so i need to deal with one system
and because i play games it needs to be updated frequently so i don't get rich either
:D

[Martyn]

Originally posted by pelligrini
Sounds like a good excuse to build another system. :D

One for gaming, one for multimedia.:rolleyes:

Well, I just bought an ASUS GeForce3 v8200 Deluxe - got best of both worlds :)
http://forum.thegenomecollective.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1424


Asus V8200 GeForce3 Deluxe (AGP) - Retail (GX-000-AS)
"This card is truly the fastest and most feature packed video card to ever hit the market." It's not surprising Media and Games Online Network have that to say about the superb Asus V8200 GeForce3 Deluxe with features like these:-
- NVIDIA® GeForce3 GPU with the world first programmable nfiniteFX Engine
- Support high resolution up to 2048 x 1536@75Hz
- 64MB DDR Video Memory with 7.4GB/sec bandwidth
- 3.2 billion samples per second full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) fill rate
- Composite & S-Video TV-Out via one S-VHS mini-DIN, and One RCA jack
- TV-In via one S-VHS mini-DIN, and one RCA jack to mini-DIN cable
- VR 3D glasses
Check out this (http://www.mgon.com/hardware.phtml?id=87769&language=en) review at Media and Games Online Network

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
...So what’s the difference between this card and the other GeForce 3’s out there? Not much besides the exceptional value offered by the 8200 Deluxe. Inside the box you will find the GeForce 3 card itself, the driver cd, user manual, 3d Glasses, ASUS Digital VCR program, ASUS DVD and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force. This package is packed to the brim with goodies to show off the power of the GeForce 3 especially the Quake 3 engine powered Star Trek Elite Force. The card has 64mb DDR Video memory that offers up to a 7.4GB/sec bandwidth spectrum, a TV out and video in connector. Also making the 8200 perfect for Video editing after a hard day behind the camcorder. Utilizing ASUS proprietary program ASUS Digital VCR, editing home movies is a snap with the GeForce 3.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


:D :D :D :D :D

[zhotfire]

I'm using a cheap($70cdn) AMAX tv card, it will capture at 640x480@30fps in preview mode an looks very respectable. If i encode using the DivX4 codec with high quality settings it's almost perfect, very nice. There is a problem though with regards to the file systems used... something about the 2GB limit with fat file systems(including fat32). It's recommended to use NTFS for the file system. I seem to have a limit of 22mins of capture before it stops capturing... though this is ok if i intend to edit heavily. The card is based on the Brooktree 848 chipset... ok for the average user, not for the hardcore... hth