Newbie on MPEG cards!

[lnetzel]

I have all the Twin Peaks episodes om PAL VHS from Swedish Television without comercial breaks and since it's not realeased on DVD and are no plans on it from what I know I fungured I could turn this into a digital format instead. I have a Normal Graphic card with 32 Mb RAM with Video In and Out.. but I have capturing into AVI and then Encode with TMPG enc cause it takes forever and I don't have the HD space for it (Pentium III 600mzh. 10 Gb (full) and 256 Mb RAM). I have read I could capture into MPEG-1 or maybe MPEG-2 directly. What do I need for this, a MPEG capture card.. but here's my questions:

1. Do I REPLACE my Graphic card with this MPEG card or do I run them at the same time?

2. If I need to REPLACE, how do I know games like Quake 3 Arena will work and look good?

3. If I can have both cards installed at the same time, do I need a speial motherboard to handle that, my AGP slot is already taken I guess?

4. What would be the best card for me to buy to encode all these episodes into a NICE quality VCD or SVCD?

please help,

[SHS]

1 & 2: What you want is add on MPEG capture card.
3: MPEG capture card are PCI or USB they don't come in AGP
and forget ATI so call ATI All in Wonder it don't have any real MPEG1,2 hardware so there go you CPU usage hehe.
4: That depend any where $150 to $300 US I'am not sure about swedish price.

Anyway lnetzel I have list of some other MPEG capture card I post the other day you my want check them out at
http://shs-tv.m0ss.com/ under news button.

I don't know which one has the best quality of the bunch I have look at a few of MPEG Sample here a few of them I have seen so far Dazzle's Digital Video Creator II, Canopus MTV1000, WinTV-PVR, Vidac VMagic.