what should be the configuration of PC for capturing?

[roshan]

Hi everybody,
I want to capture movie from my analog camcoder but think my PC power is not enough. What should be the appropriate configuration for capturing and making VCDs.

Thanks for response in advance.

bye,

[Dave B]

My last system was a Duron 700 with 128MB Ram and a 20Gig HD. These specifications are pretty close to yours and I could capture at full DVD resolution with both the HuffyUv and PicVideo codecs.

The main constraint on your system for video capture is hard drive space. A 20gig drive full of apps, isn't going to let you capture any more than a few minutes of good quality video - even using a good compression codec.

If you are looking to upgrade then put processing speed and hard drive space at the top of your list. If you want to stick with your current system for a bit longer than consider an extra hard drive and encoding your video to MPEG overnight.

[DigVidLab.com]

Intel 600 celeron

Not much power there, compared to
a true Pentium chip, or better yet an equal AMD chip.
Celeron is a consumer rip off, but I wont go there, I think I may
have started a flame war with that statment anyway!

Whatever you do, insure your W2K has NTFS enabled, so you can
bust the 4gig barrier, theres nothing else in the OS that needs
changing.

Most analog capture cards will only go SIF, or about 352X240 anyway.
You should have plenty of power to cap at 29.97 with zero drop
frames using Divx or Huffyuv.

Look into the WinTV-Go card, very good hardware with very
good drivers.

Good luck!

[roshan]

Thanks Friends,

I baught a Belvin Vedio Bus II yesterday and tried to capture but there was a frame loss. Also for about 45 min caputing, it took my whole hard drive (@17 GB). The result was not so good when I played back the capture AVI file. And when I tried to view in full screen then it was worse. I could see big pixels.

I have got socket 370 mother board. Please suggest me the max. cpu I can put in to that socket and also the slave hard drive capacity.

Offcourse I will also buy CD-Writer, so please suggest me the speed of this one as well.

Thanks a lot,

[Tbear]

You need to look at your user's manual for your motherboard to see what the fastest Celeron you can use. For hard disk get the biggest you can afford, as for CD-RW 40x is the fastest out right now.

[roshan]

Thanks Tbear,

Can't I fix Intel Pentium processor in socket 370?

I am thinking to buy 40GB @7000 RPM hard drive.

What Caputre Card you Suggest?


Bye,

[Sulik]

If you have a motherboard that supports Celeron 600, it will probably accept the coppermine P3 as well.
A 1+GHz P3 should boost your performance quite a bit, especially with the extra cache.