DIVX/XVID capture card..

[yuppicide]

I'm not happy with my Hauppauge WinTV PVR150. I cannot find any program to easily convert my DVD MPEG2 recordings into XVID/DIVX.

What card would you reccommend I get to capture directly into DIVX/XVID with a hardware encoder?! I use BeyondTV4.1

[jagabo]

You probably won't be happy with the video quality of any of the Divx capture devices, especially at low bitrates. The only ones I know of are the Plextor ConvertX boxes.

Try using VirtualDubMPEG2 or VirtualDubMod to convert your PVR-150 captures to Xvid. That's what I use for my PVR-250 captures.

[redwudz]

I don't know of a PCI card, but there is a external USB box, the Plextor PX-TV402U that will hardware encode to Divx. If you want to see certified Divx solutions, go to:

http://www.divx.com/products/hw/browse.php?c=6

[whitejremiah]

although it wouldn't be hardware per se......the divx codec itself has hit the point where it can actually be used as a capture codec directly, i'd assume its probably a bit more space consuming than say a standard divx file, and you would probably want to go through it and compress it some more....but this is just to give you some idea...right now im on a 2ghz AMD xp 2400 (outdated by today's standards......) and just kinda for kicks and giggles, i compressed something using the settings that are normally used for capture, and much to my surprise, i was able to pull right around 30fps (and i'd have to assume thats probably a restruction that they put in that particular setting of the codec, as not to waste excessive frame useage) Depending on how your computer is processor/ram/harddrive space wise, this may be an option to you.......

[mats.hogberg]

Use AVI.net or AutoGK for mpg to DivX/XviD encodes. But seriously - if you wanted AVIs from your captures - why did you get the Hauppage 150 card? The main (IMO) advantage if 1/2/350 cards is that they do capture in mpg, ready for authoring to disc.

/Mats

[disturbed1]

AutoGK would be the easiest way to go from PVR150 capture to Xvid. You would have a good deal of quality loss though, since you already compressed to mpeg2 with the PVR, then compressing again to Xvid.

If you have a modern PC, you can get just about any cheap TV tuner card, and capture to Xvid in real time. The quality would depend on how fast your PC is.

Best solutions would be either the Plextor ConvertX with hardware Divx capture, or capture to a lossless/lossy codec (YUY2/YV12/Huffyuv) then software convert to Xvid.

[Suds]

I have not tried this yet but surely this would be the easiset method:

http://www.hauppauge.com/wing/index.html