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.