Is Win TV Go a good capture card

[JamieBecks23]

Will it drop many frames, I have

VIA Cyrix III
Windows 98 SE
318MB Ram
600 mhz

Will this do the job, I want to captuer at 352 x 288

[jp1234]

My experience says that much depends on which program you use for capturing.

I have an "older" system by today's standards - Pentium III/500 with 7200 HDD and 384 MB SDRAM and an AverTV PCI card. I capture 484x484.

I used to use VirtualDub, but get audio sync problems and dropped frames.

With the *exact* same compression codec, capture size (484x484), PicVideo MJPEG codec @19, etc in AVI_IO, I get either 0 or 1 dropped frame(s) in a 30 minute TV capture and no sync problems!

Let's not even talk about how many frames the AverTV's own capture program drops or it's capture quality...

[Beavis]

You'll probably be fine... I've captured 352x480 with one on a
400Mhz machine and very minimal / insignificant frame drops.

[nick1977]

I've been happy with mine. The only time I tend to drop a worrying amount of frames is from an unstable video source. If you have a good clean signal feeding into the card you should be fine with your setup.

Nick

[James_T_Kirk]

WinTV is much much better than ATI TV wonder VE - Trust me I have experience with this. I like it so far - you will drop frames if you capture 680x480 - how depends on the proggy your using - but if your just interested in making VCD's than 320x240 should do you just fine. i capture that using whatever codec i want on a 900mhz and I dont drop any frames at all - so i wouldn't worry. If you want higher res than that with no dropped frames your gonna have to pay for it - and you aint gonna pay 50 bucks let me tell you