high quality capture card? First off what do you mean high quality? 90% of your capture problems are from settings and the source quality. I can capture video at home on a ATI TV wonder VE that rivals that of out $30,000.00 Optibase capture card at work.... because the optibase cant capture without mpeg compression and the ATI can do a raw frame capture. Are you capturing from composite in or svideo? because Svideo is a requirement to get away from color smearing or comb filter problems.
so please give us more information... define high quality. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Tackaberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freevo-users] Highest quality video capture card Hi all, I'm sure this topic has come up a zillion times, but I thought I'd bring it to the table again. I've googled for a while and read several threads, but considering how fast things change, threads from 2002 are already obsolete. I currently have a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card. More and more I am becoming dissatisfied with the quality of video captured by this card. Granted it's now a couple of years old. I've been looking at the WinTV PVR-250/350 because hardware mpeg2 is attractive, but this isn't the card I want to buy if the analog conversion process hasn't greatly improved since the WinTV PCI. For my purposes I'm not specifically interested in tuner capabilities, but just video input. So, another option may be a IEEE1394 Analog to DV converter. These do seem a little costly, though. I'm like to keep things sub-$200 (USD). So I thought I'd put the question out to the Freevo community: what are your recommendations on a high quality video capture card? Obviously Linux support is a must. Links to video samples would be most appreciated too -- I'm especially keen to see high-bitrate captures from the WinTV PVR-250/350. Thanks, Jason. -- Jason Tackaberry :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: 705-949-2301 x330 Academic Computing Support Specialist Information Technology Services Algoma University College :: www.auc.ca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
