About Capture cards

can't find the old thread Arioch I think you were interested in capture cards.
I found this one and will have it delivered in the next few days it's based on new conexant chips and claimed 720 x 480 capture size
Read about it here

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Originally posted by djmorgan
Last night as an experiment I captured firstly a lossless AVI at 640 x 480 with NO frame loss/dropped at all.
I then did a mpeg2 at 640 x 480 25 fps and highest bit rate once again no reported frames dropped.
Play back at full screen 1024 x 768 is as good as original except slight shimmer on edges but only occassionaly no artifacts at all.
I don't use the programme that came with it only the driver, I use Cyberlinks PowerVCR and PowerDirector which are really great especially the director
A quirk! the conexant driver seems to effect the idle timer meaning I seem to have lost my standby function I can do it manually but it wont time into standby or hibernation - at least I think it's the driver as in the past week I've added a new keyboard, trackball upgraded the bios to 2.6 and added the capture card it could be anything  :P
how did you record AVI or MPEG-2 for that matter? Whenever I record an MPEG-2, I can't view it with any of my players (WMP, Zoom Player, Sasami2k). I can't record AVI and I can't record above 320x240.. help!
I use PowerVCR.

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