Are TV/CAPTURE CARDS good?

-- Riad Hanna (riadhanna@ozemail.com.au), March 30, 2000

Answers

ATI all in wonder 128 32Mb is a very good card, but you can't encode in Mjpeg.

-- Pierre CHAUDEAU (pchaudea@oce.fr), April 05, 2000.

Looks like we're looking in the same direction. Have not found definite answers yet, but here's where I first got the idea:

http://www.geocities.com/cplarosa/video/capture.htm

I you find more info, let me know. TQ

-- Froilan (fcyy@yahoo.com), July 05, 2000.

The new Radeon verion of the All-in-Wonder does AVI and MPEG encoding in hardware. It also has a DVD & VCD player (with hardware DVD accel), a TV tuner, Gemstar Guide+ TV listings (excellent) and 3D graphics performance up alongside nVidia (for gamers ). Should I mention I'm very happy to have one?

That said, it produces a nice vidcap quality once you adjust it a bit.. (E.g. I was horrified at first when I saw how grainy my picture quality looked compared with my previous AverMedia card, but I quickly discovered that the default contrast was set way too high. Looks much better now. Heh.)

-- Mantar (mantar@2xtreme.net), January 12, 2001.

There's a good and cheap (I got mine for 40 dollars) TV Capture Card on the market made by Jetway (model number is 878M). It can do real- time mpeg capture with an addtional software which can be easily downloaded free from Morpheus called Power VCR II (Version 3.0)

-- Ven Yatar (et88@overseas.ph), February 23, 2002.