Can anybody help, what card is best for cap? Pinnical DV500

[Charles Bronson]

Can anybody help, I am trying to capture from PAL VCR to a Radeon AIW and then on to VCD. I’m dropping frames at a quick pace. I have read posts blaming this on dust. This makes sense because when I record from TV or New VCR cassette I lose very little amount of frames but quality is still poor. What are the best ways of improving quality? A specific capture card (pinnincal DV500)? Improve throughput by upgrading to raid with a second drive? Upgrade to a 1.7Gig CPU, although I didn’t notice that much difference between 750 Duron and 1.2 Athalon. I have a lot of old family videos. Please don’t think I want miracles just something near to your average recording to VHS. I find my system buggy anyway. I think that’s more to do with Asus board with VIA/AMD chipset. BUT please believe me when I say I don’t know where to start, help!

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Cheers

[jeffoz1]

I just use a quite inexpensive WinTV Go card with Virtualdub as capture software and it works fine.