Pro Video and/or True Blue Motion

[Dman65]

Has anyone successfully used the Pro Video capture cards or the True Blue Motion card?

I am looking for an MPEG card but I don't want to spend megabucks and these seemed to be about the lowest priced cards I have found. Unfortunately, I have not seen much in the way of user feedback.

[Rickyblaze]

I just got my Provideo pv256t card today and have only made a couple of test disks .It appears to work pretty good so far . I set it up for svcd 480x480 vbr and it goes straight to nero with no altering in tmpge at all . The test file I made was'nt the best source the original recording has alot to be desired because I am still learning the settings on my sony digital camcorder . I used it to record from the TV part of the card and it looked pretty close to the actual picture . I will try to keep you up to date as soon as I get some time to play with it a little more .

[SHS]

Hey Rickyblaze sure love to see some MPEG samples from it
if can try make 20sec long then send to me at shs@advertisnet.com try to keep a round 4MB in file size ok.

Dman65 True Blue Motion card what ULR?.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: SHS on 2001-07-07 22:16:00 ]</font>

[Dman65]

URL: http://www.mediaforte.nl/products/video/v64_zap/index.htm

Sorry, it is True Blue Action not motion. I should know better than to post after 1:00AM.

[Dman65]

Ricky,

Would love to hear about your experiences with the card. Can you tell me how much you paid for it and where you purchased it? And does it come with Video For Windows drivers? or WDM drivers?

[Rickyblaze]

Today I am stuck in the fire station but when I get home from my second job tomorrow I am planning on spending a little time playing with the card a little and see what I can make it do . I don't know what drivers it has off the top of my haed . When I installed it last night I was in a hurry and just wanted to see it record . It captured the tv programI was watching no problem . The one thing that it does'nt do is let you use Sefy's template, when you choose the settings it stays in mpeg-1 I mean you can't choose 352x240 res and mpeg-2 it's meg-1 res and constant bit rate . It does do vbr or cbr in the mpeg-2 seting and you can chnge the bitrate or use the default 2.4 mps . In the advanced settings you can change the I frames and GOP all of which I need to study about as I am not sure what any of these settings will do for the quality of the output . The TV skin is a little funky but I can live with it because it seems to work . I am thinking about hooking it up to my DSS to see what kind of quality I can come up with on a digital capture. I will try to get a sample sent as soon as I get time to aquaint myself with it a little better. As for where I purchased it I went to Provideo directly but they said they did'nt really like to sell them direct but did because they have'nt gotten them out to the USA and had just started to mass produce them.

[SHS]

I e-mail not to long ago
Q1: I am interested in PV256 PCI MPEG-II Encoding/Decoding Tuner Card.
A1: For this line we have,
PV256T PCI MPEG II Card w/TV Tuner+Remote Control at US$170.
PV256C PCI MPEG II Card at US$150.
$35 S/H

Q2: Does PV256 come with Video for Windows (VFW) driver or Wndows Driver
Model (WDM) driver?).
A2: Yes, it is with WDM driver but not support VFW driver.

Q3: Does PV256 come with Application software?.
A3: Yes, it comes with the A.P. software ours.

Q4: Does PV256 work with Adobe Premiere software and Ulead MediaStudio
software?.
A4: Adobe & Ulead .... the software you mentioned about are all for
AVI.file. But our Card is for MPEG.file so it can not work together.

Q5: Can PV256 card do hardware transcoding from AVI to MPEG?.
A5: Yes, our card is direct to MPEG.file.

Q6: Can PV256 card do hardware re-encoding of edited MPEG clips?.
A6: Our card is using StreaMachine chipset.

Q7: Can the PV256 do Time-Shift Recording?.
A7: Yes, just bundle any third party software which include Time-shift recording function.
The time-shift function currently is by using other software.
We will update our application to add time-shift in future version.

Q8: Dose the PV256 come with MPEG2 Editor?.
A8: In nearly future could be bundled with Ulead Videostudio xx?.

Q9: Windows2000 support?
A9: Yes.

Q10: Dose the PV256 have internal audio out to pass the sound to the sound
card or is it only external 1/8 to 1/8 mini jack?.
A10: PV256 which provide the Line-in & audio-out function with 3.5mm phone jack
connect to sound card.

Q11: Do the drv support other language, which language one ?.
A11: So far only English.

Q12: Which MPEG chipset is it useing? Like C-Cube.
A12: Stream Machine.

Q13: Can the FM Tuner be hookup?.
A13: Regarding your question, our PV256 doesn't have FM radio on the board.