Best Card for Capturing From Cable TV, Mainly Music Vids

[Ma2T]

Hi there, my knowledge about capturing is fairy slim. My main purpose is to connect up my cable to the card can cap Music Vids and the like.

What I would like to know is find out what some of the more experienced guys would recommend. Whether to go for a normal TV card and cap from that or to go for one with a built in mpeg2 encoder.

I know a lot about DVD ripping so I can convert most sources to Divx, (which I plan on doing).

Basically I want to know, either go for a normal TV card, and cap loosless or to go for the hardware encoding.
I don't really mind what the initial format is in, as long as I can convert to Divx.
I wish to get a resolution of about 600x480 too 800 x600 and no less.

Thanx a Lot for you help guys !

My System
40 Gig, 7200 rpm AT 66, Drive
Athlon 1.4 Gig
512 DDR Ram

[Ma2T]

Hey there, PLEASE reply.

Basicaly, whats best for high quality music vids? normal software capture cards, or one with mpeg2 encoder ?

Many many thanx, any reply would be a help