realtime mpeg2 capture?

[Boot]

Hi guys! I´ve been capturing movies and stuff thru D8 camcorder and firewire card. I was looking for a solution that would make this easyer and faster. So looked around these USB 2.0 boxes that have realtime mpeg2 coders in them, that would make my life easyer, or would it? ADS Instant DVD 2.0 looks cool, but it doesn´t seem to be working too good for looks of it. Is it realy that bad? The Pinnacle Moviebox would also do the trick but not sure about the advanced capturing setting on it, how much can be customized CBR, VBR...? I hate Pinnacle Studio 8 anyways so capturing mpeg -files would the only thing i would be doing with it.

Any comments on these boxes and if there is a better way of doing this, please feel free to share it with me.

Best regard Boot

[lordsmurf]

I suggest an ATI ALL IN WONDER RADEON card.

[Boot]

Right! I am also looking for new grafics card, so would Club-3D/ATI All In Wonder 9700 Pro 128M DDR be great joice. But as allways there are people saying that it dont word or not worth the money, but who knows. First of all I don´t need the TV Tuner at all coz all my TV´s are digital, so I´ll be only capturing in mpeg from S-Video input and burn to SVCD or DVD. And also need the power for gaming use. SO, is this perfect card for me then, and does it work properly in all areas that I need?

How about other brands, what would be best choice on this class? I´m quite handy around PC´s so knolegde of stuff is good! Just need some feedback about this product. Thanks in advance and olso thanks to lordsmurf for pointing out AIW!

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