What the Best capture Card For Satilite Dish to make SVCD?

[spiderman2k1]

What the Best capture Card For Satilite Dish to make SVCD? And how fast does you PC have to BE?

[aldus4]

If your satellite receiver has a S-Video output you'll be capturing high quality pics. If you have to use the composite connections it will still be good, but not as good as with S-Video. I personally use for comfort reasons the dazzle dvc II and get excellent results - capture direct with the provided software and then without further necessary encoding burn the captured SVCD format to CD. Others will argue that the ATI all in wonder cards are better. As always these things are subjective. What I would advise is getting a card with the so-called C Cube Chip.

You can of course visit their website with more info:
http://www.c-cube.com/product_display.fcfm?ProdID=37

[SingSing]

How much does this dv-xploer cost ?
Who sell this card ?

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You can of course visit their website with more info:
http://www.c-cube.com/product_display.fcfm?ProdID=37
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[SHS]

it a chip not a card

[webeye]

What are the minimum PC requirements...with Dazzle DVC 11?

[aldus4]

Min req are:
400Mhz Intel Pentium II,Celeron or AMD K/6
Win 98/2000/ME
RAM 64MB
Graphics 800x600
Sound card is a must
and 1 free PCI slot.

[aldus4]

@ sing sing

I would contact c-cube direct and ask who sells it. I merely put up this link as these are the manufactorers of the c-cube, which many capture card producers use.

[suspect]

why bother converting mpeg2 to analog and then back to mpeg2. http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/DVBs.htm
this card pulls the mpeg2 video down right to you hard drive for you to transcode. You need to purchase the Common Interface Module and plug in yoursatellite networks decoder card (the credit card sized thing that slides into your DVB receiver). Otherwise it can't decode your networks channels.
Of course i don't know if they sell these capture cards in the US . . .

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[aldus4]

@suspect

Interesting piece of equipment. But as spiderman2k1 wants mainly to capture his satellite feed for SVCD's I think this solution would be more complicated. The card itself comes with some software which captures the feed in PVA files. These files have then to be converted to MPEG2 format with other software they provide. I would however say that the advantage is that you would have (I presume) a high quality capture as you wouldn't need S-Video or Composite cables - otherwise I see no advantage, but interesting anyhow

[LanceSteel]

aldus:

What are your system specs? I was thinking about getting the dvc II but I read on their webpage that it doesn't support AMD cpus(huh?) at this time. I've heard of people having trouble using AMD's w/ Via mobo's. I would like to get some feedback from fellow AMD'ers before I plop down $250.

[aldus4]

@LanceSteel

That's strange as the minimum requirements state a 400Mhz AMD K/6 ??


I am using a Intel Celeron 600Mhz with 256KB RAM, WinME - as you see nothing special!!

Visit the Dazzle forum http://stop.at/dazzle2 and see if others have encountered problems with AMD's.

[webeye]

......a little confusing.
I want to make best SVCD from Satellite source. S-Video.
I have enough computer power. What do you recommend.?

[Iview]

webeye,
What aldus4 was recommending is the Dazzle Digtal Video Creator II , a hardware MPEG encode PCI capture card. This card uses a C-Cube Chip, which is one of the biggest supplier of hardware MPEG encoder/decoder chips.
Since the card is hardware encoding, it will take the load off the CPU, not much CPU power is required. 400Mhz in PII, Celeron, or AMD K6-2 is min requirement. it require 1 PCI slot with a delicated IRQ (not sharing).
With this card, you can capture on the fly through S-Video with the built-in SVCD template directly into SVCD compliant MPEG2 format. The resulting capture can then be drop into a SVCD authoring software for burning, no need to trancode or encode.
According to some posts, a few AMD/ VIA user have problem with this card, mostly sync problem.
Check
OTHER->Capture Cards to the left of this site for user comments
http://www.dazzle.com



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[webeye]

@iview
thanks...you helped many a newbie with your response.

[xxKMANxx]

i just got a Dazzle dvcII and I want to record an avi from my pc to a VHS tape with my DVC2, what i have to encode it as, I have the latest Version of TMPGenc. What settings do i use?