Video capture (4)

1 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-08-19 02:55 ID:SAyNsfAs

I currently have a Mercury TV tuner card which is a complete piece of shit; it frequently causes bluescreens, crashes and random resets when in use, and if I try to use it as a video input to any software other than the bundled one it'll cause that program to lock up, then reset the machine if I try to terminate the process. The aforementioned bundled software is absolutely terrible as well - audio and video will never, ever remain in sync, recording at a decent size absolutely destroys the framerate, it saves all image and video captures to C:\WINDOWS (for fuck's sake!) and on my last recording it added a loud high pitched buzzing noise to the left audio channel, despite the fact the audio input was plugged directly into the line-in of my sound card and no other audio recording software picked up said interference.

So, what I'm now looking for, really, is something with which I can record audio/video source to my PC from a composite input, and which doesn't suck, and doesn't come with software which sucks (or if it does, at least allows you to use other non-sucking software with it). The TV tuner bit doesn't matter, I only need a composite video input.

I see a number of cheap USB devices from Hong Kong (mostly branded EasyCap) which profess to do exactly what I'm looking for - are they any good? or if not, any suggestions otherwise? thanks.

2 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-08-19 14:43 ID:Heaven

doesn't suck = dedicated cards that can encode on the fly = expensive.

3 Name: 4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r : 2007-08-30 05:23 ID:sT+Oxvdk

Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 or PVR-500 (wich is basically 2 150s in one card). Both have composite input, on the 500 you can purchase (or sometimes its included already) a second A/V bracket so you got 2 sets of composite input.

4 Name: Redhatter : 2007-09-03 20:00 ID:Heaven

Speaking of video capture... I have a SGI O2 workstation that I've recently upgraded to a 300MHz RM5200 CPU. It has 128MB RAM, two HDDs (36+4GB), and is running Linux nicely.

The PCI slot is empty, and I was toying with the idea of purchasing a PCI DTV tuner to place in the slot. (I realise one can get a capture device for the O2 ... it doesn't work with Linux, and I don't have the IRIX 6.5 Foundation CDs.)

Is there a card someone could recommend that would allow me to record SD television as MPEG2 to disk?

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