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Posted by Joel on June 9, 2008, 6:41 am
Please log in for more thread options Can anyone recommend a reasonable one, not too expensive though. Thanks | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Joel on June 9, 2008, 8:29 am
Please log in for more thread options I would say a DVD Recorder would be the best device you can enjoy. I don't own any DVD Recorder (yet) but I have seen many of them at local stores for around $150-200 a pop. If you want video capture for computer use then it should me much cheaper (I have around 3 and few years ago I paid around $50 for the one supports up to MPEG-4) but you may not like it. Well, you may ask why it's cheaper but won't like it? because it will tie up your computer, it may require some *specific* software to to some specific thing, and the quality may not be so great (because of combination between software and hardware). | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Andy on June 9, 2008, 6:11 pm
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>Looking for a decent video capture device to put some VHS videos onto DVD.
>Can anyone recommend a reasonable one, not too expensive though. > >Thanks ATI TV Wonder TV/FM Tuner & Personal Video Recorder PCI Card <http://www.compusa.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2935458&Sku=A177-3178&SRCCODE=COMPGOOBDF&CMP=OTC-GPRODUCTS>
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Posted by kony on June 9, 2008, 7:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:41:28 GMT, "Joel"
>Looking for a decent video capture device to put some VHS videos onto DVD.
>Can anyone recommend a reasonable one, not too expensive though. > >Thanks I think you will find that VHS tapes look terrible on a computer monitor, but may look about as good when played back on an old SD CRT (typical older) TV set. All you need is any card with an S-Video input, and it should come with an adapter if you need to convert from RCA jacks on the VCR to the S-Video. There are many choices in cards, some with only the S-Video input and others with TV and/or radio turner, some onboard a whole video card. It really depends on what you want including whether it would be AGP, PCIe, PCI, or USB. The USB types tend to make MPEG while the others allow more versatility in the codec you'd use, though of course DVD is also MPEG(2). They are all fairly equal in video quality for your purposes, how you choose to encode it will be the other factor and that is something you have control over regardless if which input card you choose - except for the USB type as mentioned above, you would need to re-encode if you wanted another format. The entire topic of video capture, editing, etc, is really too broad for a single usenet post. You might want to go to Newegg.com and seek capture cards, reading the user reviews for any that catch your eye.... but keeping in mind that some people will want and complain about some features that won't matter for your purposes especially when talking about TV tuner type cards since you won't be using the tuner features at all. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Martin on June 10, 2008, 4:38 am
Please log in for more thread options > On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:41:28 GMT, "Joel"
> > >Looking for a decent video capture device to put some VHS videos onto DVD.
> >Can anyone recommend a reasonable one, not too expensive though. >
> >Thanks
>
> I think you will find that VHS tapes look terrible on a > computer monitor, but may look about as good when played > back on an old SD CRT (typical older) TV set. > > All you need is any card with an S-Video input, and it > should come with an adapter if you need to convert from RCA > jacks on the VCR to the S-Video. There are many choices in > cards, some with only the S-Video input and others with TV > and/or radio turner, some onboard a whole video card. It > really depends on what you want including whether it would > be AGP, PCIe, PCI, or USB. The USB types tend to make MPEG > while the others allow more versatility in the codec you'd > use, though of course DVD is also MPEG(2). > > They are all fairly equal in video quality for your > purposes, how you choose to encode it will be the other > factor and that is something you have control over > regardless if which input card you choose - except for the > USB type as mentioned above, you would need to re-encode if > you wanted another format. > > The entire topic of video capture, editing, etc, is really > too broad for a single usenet post. You might want to go to > Newegg.com and seek capture cards, reading the user reviews > for any that catch your eye.... but keeping in mind that > some people will want and complain about some features that > won't matter for your purposes especially when talking about > TV tuner type cards since you won't be using the tuner > features at all. http://www.videohelp.com/ is an excellent source of info for video capture and conversion. Martin. | |||||||||||||
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> Can anyone recommend a reasonable one, not too expensive though.
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> Thanks