Inexpensive SVHS imput capture card?

[Georgeo57]

I've been using the Win-Go TV card, and its great, but now I'd like to imput from a SVHS recorder, and need a card that allows that.

I use VirtualDub, Huffy lossless compression, and the btwincap drivers, and capture at 640X480. Also my computer has a Pentium III 500mHz chip and I have 128MB of RAM.

I would really appreciate advice on a good, fairly inexpensive card that isn't too difficult to set up.

Thanks,
George

[Metaluna]

The Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP should do the trick, and is fairly inexpensive (about $55 USD the last time I looked at Newegg.com). I believe it uses the same capture chip as your existing board so your btwincap drivers should still work.

[lordsmurf]

Any card can grab from the S-VHS players composites, many from coax. Some from s-video.

S-VHS is a tape format. s-video is a connector wire.

[proxyx99]

Any card that has s-video input can do that obviously (if we're talking SVHS capture quality with 420 lines). S-video has separate luminance and chrominance connectors and IT WILL give better picture quality when viewed on a GOOD screen. But for day-to-day capture purposes there are "s-video to rca" connectors if quality is not that critical. Many viewers will not notice the difference though.... from my experience.

In general, try to use s-video whenever possible. If not? It's not a tragedy. Use RCA video jack.