New PC,New Capture card?

[AllstarElyar]

i gonna buy a new pc and want a new capture card.but i also want buy a DVD-R or DVD-RW.
i also have some question.
1.What is the different between DVD-RW and DVD-R?
2.Can i watch and record at the same time?
3.Which formats i can record in(Vob,MPEG-2,....)?
4.Can i record on my HDD with DVD-R?
5.and what is advantage of DVD_R from Capture card?
i had a tv card but when i started capturing it start after afew second and then drop frame?
is DVD_RW or DVD-R a solution to these drop frames?

thx in advance,
Elyar

[Nelson37]

1. RW=re-writable. Can be erased and re-used

2. Yes

3. Depends on the card, codecs installed. Quality depends on speed of PC. SFAIK nothing records directly to VOB format.

4. No, related to #5, you seem to be confused. No connection whatsoever between capture card and DVD-R. One is an analog to digital video converter, one is a storage device. Two completely different devices.

Do some more research before spending any money, you are way off on some very important points.

[CrayonEater]

One thing to keep in mind is to look at cards with hardware MPEG-2. DVD VOB is a type of MPEG-2 and recording to MPEG-2 allows you to (usually, depending on your settings) skip the step of re-encoding what you record into VOB. Because that can take hours and is CPU-intensive if done in software, it's better to have a card that does it in hardware.
You use authoring software to make the DVD menus, import the MPEG-2 files created by your recording software into VOBs, edit if desired, and burn.

However, cards do vary widely, and many have use your system's audio inputs rather than have built-in inputs themselves. Hauppauge cards seemed to be highly-favored when I was doing my research last year, but if you have the money the Canopus and other cards are better.

Incidentally, if you do use a hardware encoding card, you might be able to justify buying a lower-end computer, so you'll save money if you look at it that way. You won't need a super-duper-high-powered CPU and memory if your computer doesn't have to do much encoding itself (likewise, you won't need a super-duper computer if you don't mind several-hours-long encodes either!)

[AllstarElyar]

One thing to keep in mind is to look at cards with hardware MPEG-2. DVD VOB is a type of MPEG-2 and recording to MPEG-2 allows you to (usually, depending on your settings) skip the step of re-encoding what you record into VOB. Because that can take hours and is CPU-intensive if done in software, it's better to have a card that does it in hardware.
You use authoring software to make the DVD menus, import the MPEG-2 files created by your recording software into VOBs, edit if desired, and burn.

However, cards do vary widely, and many have use your system's audio inputs rather than have built-in inputs themselves. Hauppauge cards seemed to be highly-favored when I was doing my research last year, but if you have the money the Canopus and other cards are better.

Incidentally, if you do use a hardware encoding card, you might be able to justify buying a lower-end computer, so you'll save money if you look at it that way. You won't need a super-duper-high-powered CPU and memory if your computer doesn't have to do much encoding itself (likewise, you won't need a super-duper computer if you don't mind several-hours-long encodes either!)

1.i dont understand that DVD-R or DVD-RW is affecting cpu toomuch like software cards or no?

2.and DVD-R and DVD-RW record in thier sapce and then i should put them on dvd and then rip it to have the file on my HDD?am i right?
and after these what will be the format of the file?


3.i cap alot and i think DVD-R have a advantage that you can rewind and cap?is this possible?
and i see in a capture site(they cap some episodes from tv) they have a 10 min video in 16 mb.
the quality isnt that much but when i convert like that, my file become very bad quality.
how can i get better quality(not mentioning the file size,just quality)?with DVD recorders or capture card?

thx in advance

[AllstarElyar]

come on guys...i need help
im confused right now

[budz]

If you want quality then buy yourself a dvd recorder if you think the quality is not good when capturing and converting when using a pc.

[ark]

AllstartElyar


The best course for you is to read all the guides in this site to get some idea of the subject of video capture , what is DVD, what is DVD-R/RW etc etc. Then when you some understanding of the subject, start asking questions in this forum. That would be best for all.

The other option for you is to go and buy a DVD Recorder. A number of these come with hard disk and will fulfill your requirement of watching one item, while recording another item.
Go through the list of DVD Recorders on this site, check what is available in your place, how much you can spend and then buy.