Hauppauge doesn't seem to be a option for me.
One thing I forgot to mention is that I have
 a Hollywood MPEG with the Creative DVD 6X
 Drive.
The Raedon VE has been mentioned but I have not
 seen that available in my area. The Dazzle DM7000
 is a little costly for now.
	Is the ATI All in Wonder Card good? Or is
there any other capture cards that you could 
 recommend?
	Or should I think about upgrading my MB
 and CPU before trying video capture?

FE Fuller


Simeon wrote:
> 
> 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.