Frederic Fuller wrote:
> 
> 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?

I have a P3, 667 MHz with 256 MB RAM and an ATI
All-in-Wonder 128 (I'm pretty sure that's what it
was called...based on the Rage 128 chipset, not the
newer Radeon-based one). I'm able to capture MPEG-1
at 320x240 in real time, with no quality problems I
can see (no frames dropped either, though it helps
if I'm not doing anything else on the system at the
time...even moving the mouse around a lot can cause
a few frames to get dropped, so I'd guess the whole
process is hitting the CPU pretty hard).

Would I recommend the All-in-Wonder? I'm not sure...
my experience with this video card (and a previous
AiW) has been that ATI's software to allow you to
do things like video capture doesn't use standard
Windows APIs, which means that it looks different
from every other piece of software while also being
slower than every other piece of software...also,
ATI tends to encourage the ability to capture into
non-portable formats which they later drop support
for (their MPEG-2 format gave me a lot of trouble,
though since FlaskMPEG can read it I may have been
mistaken in believing that ATI wasn't cleaving to
standards...). OTOH, when it comes to capturing
straight to MPEG-1, I'm fairly happy with the AiW.
 
Alan Zabaro