Best Card to Capture SVCD?

[likwid8]

Ok I am really sorry but I did read all the threadsa I can possibly read about to which capture card is the best one for capturing SVCD's..... All i want is a good name with good and best quality to capture SVCD's... I dont mind the price range, just as long as its the best or close to the best.. My ATI AIW 128 PCI pro sux (no offence) for capturing even VCD, VirtualDub has a problem with it and its lagging, i drop 200% frames every time I capture, my pc is 500MegaHertz with 164Megs of ram, ok please someone let me know the best capture card for capturing SVCDs and thank you all for reading this thread, youll make me a hapy man by answering me this question, thnxs alot....


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[disturbed1]

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On 2001-12-14 22:12:58, likwid8 wrote:
which capture card is the best one for capturing SVCD's.....
... I dont mind the price range, just as long as its the best or close to the best..
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Try this http://www.visiblelight.com/products/optibase/OBAMP0288.asp

Pretty close to "The Best"

[Kyle]

I know he said he didn't care about the price, but he might just think that $9,245.00 is just a little expensive.

[herokid]

I have only tried Dazzle DVCII - it has worked great for me at very high bitrates using P3-500. Think I had 384M RAM when I first used it. Don't use it much anymore as most of my input mat'l is now DV or otherwise digital.

PS - if anybody springs for the $9K card mentioned, I'd be curious to hear their experience.

[likwid8]

HEhe thnxs guys, yes $9,000 is pretty expensive, but i was just thinking the best card or the most card used by rippers capturing music videos to SVCD... I want to do that, and I just wanted to know the vard they used.. Some guy told me a Pinnacle PCI/FM does beautifully for like $95 and thats great for me actually, any other suggestions?

[Kyle]

I just bought that card right after I posted that message. It works great and would recommend it. It's $30 after rebates at CompUSA (today is the last day for the offer)

[disturbed1]

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On 2001-12-15 11:40:06, likwid8 wrote:
HEhe thnxs guys
any other suggestions?
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That's just the retail

Check these links
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1307957013

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1308338219 (mpeg1 only, but BEST QUALITY!)

I saw the 200s for $1100 3 months ago.

I wouldn't expect too much for $95. The DVCII ($250) isn't all that good either. High bitrate mpeg2 is pretty good though.

You have really three choices,
1)Spend the cake, and get a good card.
2)Capture uncompressed, filter/encode with software.
3)Buy a DVCII, and settle for OK quality.

[AiShaolinQuan]

So, I take it the described card of $1000+ is NOT:

1- dvd ripping
2- MJPEG hardware capture
3- Regular video capture

Sorry, I'm a bit new to this, but what is it? Is there anything in a lower price range that's even close to comprable? I'm in a bit of the same boat. I'd sure like to get a card that can be quick, great quality, do dvd and tapes alike and make great svcds or mpegs. Is this the answer? (For once, it'd be nice to get more than just a bundle of differnt opinions, but eh, thats life

[ejai]

ADS Instant DVD, I feel it might be the might best video capture device to date. I've been searching for some time now using all sorts of devices and this won is the best by far.

Ease of use and quality is in this small device, If it works for you like has for me you'll love it. Check out the ADStech website, for this USB device nothing beats it, even capture cards might have to take second place to this product.

[Vejita-sama]

Looking at the ADS Instant DVD site, but can't find some info. Can you tell me more about it?

1) I assume it only does CBR captures, but what's the quaility look like in motion scences?

2) Can you really capture at 704x480@30fps? If so what's the CPU useage/dropped frames? What's your system look like?

3) Does it come with the full ver of Ulead Video Studio or a stripped ver?

This card (USB device?) looks pretty nice. They seem to go for about $180 mail order. I have the cheap-o Cybermail AV card now and have been thinking about upgrading (it only takes me ~2x the source runtime to make a MPEG2 now, but...)

[KDT]

likwid8. I also have ATI 128 pro. It did not capture well even in VCD format, my system k7 1.2g. But after I changed to xp 1k7+, it captured VCD and DVD formats much better. May be it had to do with CPU, also running under win XP ATI MM7.5.
I will try to capture under win 2k to see any diferent.

[Nelson37]

I won't say real-time MPG2 is not possible, but all I have seen are suggesting high bitrates for good quality, which give huge files that have to be compressed. Using AIW128 with 8000 bitrate mpg2 looks great, frameserve and compress for SVCD gives VCR quality. Why spend more money to capture a slightly smaller file shich still must be compressed? I find realtime capture to SVCD OK for lo-motion, but gets VERY blocky on hi-motion scenes.

[ADS Ivan]

Vejita-sama,

1) It is constant bit rate yes. The quality is outstanding (depending on the source of course), and elimination of render time is key.

2) The Instant DVD allows you to capture 704x480 @ 30fps, at up to 5 megabits/second. Its minimum system requirements are as low as a Celeron/Duron 400, not requiring much horse power, as the Instant DVD itself is the encoder, not the CPU.

3) Both the versions of Ulead's VideoStudio 5 and Sonic Solutions MyDVD 3.0 are full versions.