I think I may be missing something.
I'm looking to capture segments of various tapes in Lagarith. I was planning to purchase an ADVC-100 or -110, but from further reading it looks like those were designed to capture DV-AVI. I may or may not be understanding this right, but do the ADVC boxes do some sort of hardware encoding? Would that stop me from doing straight Lagarith lossless encoding in software? and if so, is there a device I could purchase that would not interfere with the encoding of a captured file?
I'm sorry - I'm very new to this and quite confused.
Thanks.
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Yes, the compress with a DV codec.
Yes. You would be decompressing the DV then compessing with Lagarith.
There are many devices that can capture to raw YUV 4:2:2 video suitable for Lagarith. The problem is the best ones are no longer made. And you often have to run XP to use the fully. An example would be the ATI TV Wonder 600. -
To clarify, the USB version of the ATI TV Wonder HD 600 is a good capture device. The internal ATI TV Wonder HD 600 devices, which use different chips, are less desirable. Their automatic gain control goes crazy sometimes.
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The ATI 650 and 750 also suffer from AGC problems and should be avoided. Hauppauge still has a few raw YUV 4:2:2 devices.
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All right, thanks for the responses. I don't have a spare machine to run XP on, so I'd be looking for something compatible with Win7, Win8 or OSX. Is there anything like that out there? Or could an older card be modified/hacked somehow to be compatible with a newer system?
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The ATI 600 USB works fine with Windows 7 at least. Also the ezcap.tv stick works well and has current and on-going driver support. Some feel that the ATI stick is better, but having both, I don't really see much if any difference between the captures, so chances are either one would suit you fine.
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Also there new generation devices like those made by Black Magic (probably many similar solutions also is on market from different vendors), capable to do HD capture but they work fine also with SD.
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink
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The Blackmagic devices have problems with VHS -- they may stop recording when there time base errors.
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