Frederic Fuller wrote:
> I have been on the various Video card newsgroups, but all they talk
> about is
> problems that they have. If I went by the newsgroups all capture/video
> cards are impossible
>  to use and destroy your computer.
>         Any Suggestions?

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.