Capturing with GeForce4 card? Anyone tried?

[davidian]

There are several brands of graphics cards with the GeForce4 technology that allows video capturing.

MSI, Aopen etc...

From what I've read, they allow mpeg-1, mpeg-2 and VCD capturing. Can anyone confirm this? It would really really suck if you can't capture to AVI .. help me out, does anyone know if you can capture avi?

[M82a1]

I'm using an MSI GF2TI w/video in, and have captured in mpg1/mpg2 and avi. All the MSI video in cards I've read about at MSI,s web site come bundled w/Intervideo's Wincoder, which captures mpg1/mpg2. If it uses the same video in chip as the GF2TI (and iI believe it does) avi shouldn't be a problem, capturing w/V-Dub.

[davidian]

Ok, thanks for the help!

Can you capture in high resolutions (720x576)? Is the quality OK?

[M82a1]

I commonly capture @720x480 (ntsc) using PICVideo quality @20 with little or no dropped frames. the downside to this is if you're using win9x you'll hit the 4GB file limit in 6 to 7 minutes (thank god for frameserving). I found quality of capture has more to do with the source material, most of my source material is old vhs and sucks.

[kingy1968uk]

M82a1, I was wondering if you could help me out with this winproducer/wincoder program as I cannot seem to grab mpeg2 in Pal full or half but if I select ntsc then it allows me to do ntsc full and half with no problems..

Any help is much appreciated

Sean