Interested in Cheapness and quality

[Greg12]

All i want is a way to bring AVI into my Dell Inspirion 8100.

I have:

2 USB
1 Serial
1 1394 Intergrated
2 PCMCIA

I don't want to spend alot of money.

I will be exporting to nothing higher than SVCD.

I have the time to capture then encode. I don't want real time coding.

SOmething cheap that captures at 480x480

[vhelp]

Greg12,

Well, for me... the experience I have gained under my loose
belt is this - and my recommendation, FWIW to me... in this
order, based on MY experience:

AVI Cap Cards:
* DC10+
* ATI Rage Fury Pro (WDM Drivers) vfw wrapper sucks.
* ATI-TV Wonder - any ATI capture card (they all have MACROvision +/- )
* Hauppauge WinTV AVI cap card

Hardware MPEG-1/2 cards are:
* WinTV PVR (USB)
* Dazzle DVC II
* Dazzle usb

Currently, I use these two cap cards:
* DC10+ ...max 640x480 (no frame drops) (noreg hack known)
* WinTV PVR ...max 352x480 (no frame drops) 2/4/6 Mbits settings (reg hack avai)

My basic encoding system is w/ DC10+ and PVR:
DC10+ ...frameserve to tmpgenc (5-7hrs, but can go up to 12 hours encode process)
PVR ...cut comm w/ womble (no muxing necessary) (1 hour via editing + capture times)

Anybody else with a better suggestion(s) ?

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AMD 900mhz 128mb ram

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[Panash]

Dell Inspirion 8100 sounds like a lap top.

Is your source analogue video or digital (DV or digital?.

From a digital camcorder you'll only need a cable,

From analogue or off air, there's the Dazzle DVMaster, ($250/£250) or wait for the new generation of USB MPEG encoder boxes (available very soon)

PN

[thxkid]

1st of the PVR by happuage will capture 480x480 I do it all the time but its not cheap $199.
Any USB under $99 will not be able to capture at 480x480 and plus any USB will have a 5 to 20 second delay when you start to record so keep that in mind, if want capture with divx AVI at 480x480 and have a PCI slot then go with the hauppuage WINTV GO PCI card its $49and will do a good job if you got the time to convert AVI to MPEG1 or MPEG2.
But any MPEG2 hardware device which gets you MPEG2 SVCD compliant captures is gonna start you at $199, Nvidia has a new Hardware card a $149- 32 meg, $199 - 64 meg.
But if you must have USB device try out the Moviemaker by Creative Labs for $199 which is a MPEG1 and MPEG2 encoder device.

[Thurbs]

Laptop computers have no internal slots for any of the cards mentioned above.

[Greg12]

I have no AGP or PCI slots.

Only the ones i mentioned.

It is analog. I can get DV no problem but unfortuantly my camera doesn't have a video intake so i can't use it as a capture tool.

2 USB
1 Serial
2 PCMCIA
1 1394 port.

[ATIWONDERIFWORKS]

DO NOT GET AN ATI TV I WONDER IF IT WORKS!!!!!!

[vhelp]

Greg12,

was was talking about my USB devices. I just happen to mention my
PCI cards in error, I guess. Sorry about that!

Later.

[holistic]

I know you don't want to spend much money but give this one a look-see

http://www.dazzle.com/products/hw_bridge.html

8100 series is a laptop you are correct