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Thread ID: 29349	2003-01-17 09:43:00	Video capture cards (maybe?)	Faydrian (239)	Press F1

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114671	2003-01-17 09:43:00	I am trying to make 'back up copies' of some VHS video tapes on to a CD and, being of limited knowledge :D I believe I should be using a 'video capture card'. Would that be right? I want to be able to play them back in either full screen mode on the computer (with 1.7GHz, 512 MB RAM and 64 MB RAM video card) monitor or out through a video and on to the TV screen (full screen) or directly on to the TV (via Composite or S-Video). And, at the risk of getting told off for starting a thread within a thread, which ones are the better ones? Cheers! :D	Faydrian (239)
114672	2003-01-17 10:13:00	I have done what you describe. My VHS tapes were professionally transcribed 8 mm home movie film from the 1950's I used my Video card for these (MX460) as it supports Video Out and Video in, and they turned out fine. I have also done some on another PC, using a PCI capture card from Dick Smith, about $97 I think. The PC wasnt as fast as yours, but worked OK apart from sometimes when the process was started it would drop frames like mad, other times it was fine. Now, if you want to play them back and display them on a TV you need video out as well. I don't think the DSE card supported that. If you already have a video card with TV out, then thats OK, not sure if you do. Your video card does sound like it might be AGP but does it have Video in and out? If you want to capture the sound you will need a lead from the VCR to the line input on your sound card, sound is not included on the S-video plug, its separate. The next issue is hard Drive space. Unless you put reasonable compression on, its a huge file. With MPEG1 compression its about 10 Mb per minute I think, and thats not flash resolution. With higher resolution you would be looking at quite a few Gigabytes for a tape I used the software that came with the video card, and on the other machine there was software with the capture card. Remember if you compress to MPEG1 format, you can burn a VCD that will play in a DVD player, onto a TV. This is what I have done, Nero software does it on a normal CD burner.	godfather (25)
114673	2003-01-20 06:37:00	If you want a good fast Video Capture card, for about 2x the price Leadtek/WinFast have released MyVIVO cards with the nVidia GeForce 4 MX & Ti series chipsets. So far I am yet to hear a complaint from people who have purchased them. AGP cards also seem to have a heck of a lot more resolution and sampling than most standard video capture cards. They are also 100% WinXP & 2k supported.	kiwistag (2875)
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