whats a one hardware solution to capture both TV SHows and capture my home VHS movies? aslo is there a one hardware solution that also captures those and converts them to mpeg2 at the same time? shpould i go with a video card or a piece of external hardware? is that asking to much out of a hardware product? should the hardware do all this or should i capture those things ,then convert them to mpeg2 on my computer? what give the best quality? thanks
At this Time Hardware Mpeg2 encoders are Too expensive for the High Quality ones and the Ones that are affordable aren"t very good Quality...You can use Any TV Card to Capture From TV or VCR, as Long as it has a tuner on it you can Capture from TV and as Long as it has One Input becides the Tuner it will capture From VCR or DVD...The Best TV Tuner cards out right now are the Ones with the 10 Bit Decoder chip Like the "MSI TV @nyWere" and the new "Asus TV Tuner card" and I think the "WinFast TV Deluze" has a 10 bit Decoder But I"m not sure...You can also capture directly to Mpeg useing software capture Programs but these Dont Produce the best Quality especially for VCD or SVCD and you need a Very Fast PC to Capture Full resolution Mpeg...I get the Best Quality useing a Good Capture card and captureing to a Low Compression AVI format like useing the "Huffyuv" Codec, then you can can Filter out any Noise and Artifacts useing a Tool Like Virtual Dub or use the Filters that come with Good Quality Mpeg2 encoders Like Tmpgenc or the Noise Filter in the "MainConcept encoder" and Filter while you are encodeing to Mpeg2...Depending on How Much Money you want to spend will Mostly determine what Kind of Card or Capture device you should get, If you have say $250 US to spend on a High Quality capture device then I would get something like the "Canopus ADVC-100" which is a Profecinal Quality Analogue/Digital DV Converter which Produces awesome Quality useing a Hardware DV Compressor, it is a External Box that Hooks into your PC VIA Firewire port...But if you Only have say $100 or under then You should get a Good 10 Bit TV Card like one of the Ones I mentioned with the Asus TV Tuner/Capture card being near the Top of the List......Cheers
I'm eyeing the new Canopus ADVC300 coming out soon. It has built-in TBC, noise filtering, frame buffering, etc. designed for capturing from analog tape to DV. I wonder if it will be worth the $549 price???
