SVCD real-time capture cards

[iparout]

If I want a capture card that can capture to SVCD compliant files in real-time, should I look for a real-time MPEG1 or real-time MPEG2 capture card ? Any capture card recommendations ? Is the quality of the SVCD captured real-time superb or should I prefer the old AVI to SVCD encoding if I want superb quality ?

Thx in advance for your suggestions.

[Freddie100]

Dazzle II.

[patrickm]

ATI AIW 128 / 128 Pro / Radeon can do SVCD in realtime, but requires a re-mux, which takes about 10 min/ hour of video. you need at least a P3 700 or Athlon 750 for top quality. from a vhs source, the AVI encode method looks better, but from clips i've done from a dvd source it's better in some respects (the artifacts are like JPG 'mosquitos' instead of macroblocking with TMPG)

[iparout]

So, let me get that straight :

1) The capture cards that can do real-time SVCD encoding are listed as hardware MPEG or MPEG-2 capture cards ?

2) Which card is better (in terms of quality) in real-time SVCD capturing ? DV500+ or Dazzle II ?



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ATI AIW 128 / 128 Pro / Radeon can do SVCD in realtime, but requires a re-mux, which takes about 10 min/ hour of video.
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I've found that Mpeg2vcr (Womble) will demux an 800 meg file in less than 90 seconds. It will remux nearly as fast. It's very very fast when compared to TMPG.

[SHS]

Ocen again the ATI AIW is not real-time hardware it real-time software using ligos codec

DV500+ has no MPEG hardware but if want product from Pinnacle that has MPEG hardware support you need DC1000, DC1000DV, DC2000DV, I think this one also has real-time MPEG hardware supper "Pro-ONE" but I don't know sure been it very new product.

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[iparout]

I think that DV 500+ enables real-time MPEG 2 hardware capturing up to 6000 kbps. Look at the capture card list for that. Something I don't understand is how DV 500+ can capture DV although not using Firewire. Does the PCI slot enables high data transfers required by the DV format ?

BTW, does anyone know any decent real-time SVCD capture cards with good quality capturing ? (I've heard that the Dazzle DVC II gives horrible quality when using the SVCD template.)

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[SHS]

No DV 500+ enables real-time DV only.
It work same as TV card dose the only diff is there no support for tuner so chip it using a lot smaller only support s-video/composite.
DV 500+ using Premiere with the ligos export formats codec.
http://www.videoguys.com/dv500plusreview.html
http://www.videoguys.com/board/?topic=topic1&msg=284