Message-Id: <3C54BDB6.000001.02020@computer> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:55:50 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: "Simeon" References: To: Subject: RE: OT:Video/Capture Card or Video & Capture Card Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk I have the affore mentioned set up (Got a GeForce 2 MX, and a Hauppauge WinTV Thearter) and I have to tell you, it is total crap ^_^ And if I remmber correctly, you said you have a K7V. A board with a know incompatiblity with the Hauppage Win TV cards. The Geforce 2 MX is fine, but dont go with Hauppague for your capture board. The only reason I have one, is because I got it for free. Other than that, it's crap ^_^ The driver crashes daily, so I find myself constantly re-installing it. And the Win TV program that comes with it is total crap, so I use a 3rd party program called De-Scaler. In short, dont get Hauppage ^_^ -------Original Message------- > From: tenchi@ml.usagi.org Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:49:01 PM To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org Subject: RE: OT:Video/Capture Card or Video & Capture Card I reccomend getting a GeForce 2 MX series card, and any Hauppage WinTV card.Any except for USB since pretty much any thing that says it can send 30 fps video through USB is a lie. I have a GeForce 2 MX200, i get 46.2 FPS in Quake 3 normal graphoics mode. Note i have a 950Mhz processor. The WinTV software and drivers are good except that during captures it doesnt resize the video windows properly. But the capture turns out fine. A note actual real time MPEG 1 or 2 compression i believe is probably MJPEG or really crappy quality. Raw AVI files converted to MPEG1 VCD type are around 18FPS on my computer. It would take approximately a 2.0 Ghz Duron or 1.9 Ghz Athlon to do that. Or a 2.3 Ghz P4.(none of which exist currently. You best bet would to capture raw AVI files split em during capture and then convert them to mpeg format.