Hauppauge Win TV FM 401 highest resolution capture software?

[Illicious]

Hi, ide like to know what software i can use to capture high quality (about 640x480 sharp) resolution photos.

Im using PowerVcr for the snapshot photos but they aint very clear or sharp not to mention large enough use.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[jdizzy40]

Software programs to capture screen shots will never be as good as those taken with DV or camera equipment. Most use a BMP format versus JPEG, again a limitation of the software.

[fmctm1sw]

Jdizzy has a good point. I have used my camcorder to take some film and convert it to pictures. I had 32,000 pictures (BMPs) of last Christmas. I used 640x480 like you to keep the proper aspect ratio. I had to fight with interlacing though too. You could cap at 640x240 and size up for no interlacing. I've done that too. By the time I fought with connecting to my cap setup and fumbling through a bunch of pictures, you'd have less frustration just picking up a cheap digital camera. BUT, there was one nice thing about making all those pictures. When your kids flash a goofy smile and you say "damn, I wish I would have gotten a picture of that..." You have 30 pictures for evry one second of time! NOTHING gets missed. And if you can't shell out the jack for a DV camcorder, it may be your only option.

[Illicious]

Dang, im a little confused now.

You mean thoes gaming sites that have like 800x600 supurb quality in game photos use a external digital video camera?

They must have some set up then.
RGB monitor with a special no tilt or quality loss in the photos from a specially aligned DV camera.

I thought high quality photos like that was done all via computer capture.
Im almost in disbelief that a DV camera pointed towards a monitor would be the best way for the highest quality photos avalable.

Best program so far is PowerVcr (decent capture 320x240), but then i guess ide like to know what card, DV camera or equiptment i can use (with a 2gigmhz above 700 ram, winxp) for high quality photos.


Round up:
Im trying to capture playstation2 gameplay video with the audio and high quality photos for my site.
What one would recommend ide use/get to have great high resolution quality content like other sites have?

[dandigiman]

Well, if you have a tv out on your card, you could send that to a DV cam and bring back the DV content to your pc.

I was using TVTool to send the information to my VCR and then capturing the content back to my computer. I would loose alot of information going back and forth but it did get the job done.