Looking for a quality capture card fully functional in VirtualDub

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I am looking for a PCI card that takes composite in and can output RGB24 or YUY2 in any resolution of my choice with little to no background noise. Preferably it is under $100. So far, I have tried out an ATI TV-Wonder VE and a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card. With the right drivers, the ATI captures in any colorspace and resolution imaginable, but is very noisy. When just my VCR's blue background is up, there are these faint lines moving up and down.
When I use the Hauppauge card, there is hardly any noise at all to be seen, and the picture is crystal-clear. Just it won't let me capture raw, and won't capture at 704x480. The closest I can come to is 720x480. I also suspect that it does some de-interlacing by default, which I also don't want. I would like to preserve the interlacing when capturing.
I tried looking through the capture card list, but it didn't really mention the card's advanced capabilities. Thanks for your help.

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Hi. I don't know if this will exactly answer your question, but my comments are based on actual experience.

So far, I have tried out an ATI TV-Wonder VE and a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card.

I have that card.. except that I either misplaced or lost it, cause I can't find it.
But, it's been a pretty good card for what it does, in terms of quality. You can't
beat (vs. the Hauppauge hwardware mpeg) it for its raw capture, however.

As for the Line Noise. As I've mentioned countless times, I've suffered from this
phenomina for many years.., dateing back to 2001, I think.., and consiquentially
the reason why I opt for the Canopus ADVC-100 (back in Sept/2002) because it did
not exhibit *ANY* such line noise or any noise, for that matter. The only issue
(at that time) was with the (DV) 411 bug or chroma problem -- later, fixable
with several plugin/filter applications, available in AVIsynth and VirtualDub.

The line noise, however, is (theorically) an induced or bi-product of the persons
motherboard and/or pci I/O system, where these things generate very fast clock
cyles and something magically manifest's (induced) itself as yours truely, Line Noise!

However, this can be ELIMINATED if a change is made to one's system, overall.
In my system, I did two things:

A) I upgrade to a new Motherboard/CPU (different clock cyles) and,
B) purchased a $79 Monster Power Strip with filtered AC Line and Coaxale Cable line

(Note, most people don't approave of Monster's high-prices, but I went this
route because I was desporate and I didn't wan't the nonsense of dealing with websites
(for bargan-pricing) and difficult dealings with returns and what-nots. It was easier
for me to just return the item to the store, directly, if I were not happy with it)

Then, by hooking up the following items -- altogether -- to this hardware:

** (analog) Cable Coaxale Line
** TV
** VCR
** XP Home computer, ( ECS GeforceE6100SM-M w/ 1gig DDR RAM, AMD 64 X2 3600+ )
** Pinnacle Studio AV/DV -- pci (analog) capture card.

All that Line Noise seemed to disapear. Now, I just capture from my VCR, either
tapes or cable tv, and be happy about it

Now, fwiw, I haven't tested it out on *other* pci type capture cards. I've mainly
been happy withthe card I got in there right now. The old coined expression seems
to want to give way.. 'if it an't broke, don't fix it !!'

-vhelp 4438

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What I'm saying is that the line noise dissappears when I switch to the Hauppauge capture card. I am using the same motherboard/system both times.