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[ady]

I'm looking at getting a TV capture card that actually gives a fair play-back..Bit ancient but I have a WinTV GO and also something else (can't find it to look, but Aver I think).......Bottom line is they are great for viewing but not capture as the frame rate's just not hot enough.

So my point!

Any suggestions for a fair card to capture TV (and camcorder too) for...Hmmm under £100 :oops:

Thanks for any help.

Hope you all had a great Christmas, Ady.

[duplu]

You'll basically need one with hardware MPEG compression. In the old days these were really expensive and therefore most cards used software compression. This resulted in a framerate of around 5 frames/sec compressed. You could capture in AVI but you'd then get a filesize of about 1Gb for 5 minutes on these old cards!!

I can't really make a recommendation as such but the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 PCI Personal Video Recorder with TV Tuner looks OK. It has a hardware MPEG encoder/decoder so will record in MPEG-2 for straight to DVD quality.

http://www.amazon.co...4021039-6559823

[RB]

seconded on the hauppage..... Great cards for the money..... :twisted:

[ady]

Yeah cheers guy's.....

Picking one up at the weekend....Maplins Sale.