Integrated Capture Chip ?

[elihay]

I find it very hard to deside what display adapter to buy. I want a capture capability.

As I understand there is special chip on the board which is responsible to the capture and there are varius of kind which diferent quality.
How can I find out what capture chip is used by what vendor ?

I have heard about the theater200 of ATI that supposed to be good, but does it come with every card based on ATI radeon ?
What chip the ASUS card comes with ? Is it depend on the graphic proccesor?

Thanks

[Amaze]

search on google or try ati.com

[SaSi]

I suggest you don't combine VGA with capture. Capture cards start at very cheap (~$30) and some combine a TV/FM tuner for almost no additional cost. You could even use a USB2 model and use it on multiple PCs.

On the other hand, VGA cards become obsolete before you buy them. If you want a modern VGA and combine capture to that, you will end up buying a top of the range model that will cost you lot's of money and will have to throw away pretty soon.

10 months ago I replaced my old ASUS 3800Ultra that I bought for more than $300 some years ago with another ASUS 9180 Video Suite. Although I have never had any problems with capture with both of them, recent apps (games) force me to replace every year or so. I still have a Hauppage TV/FM/Capture card that I bought for $80 two years ago. I think I am going to re-use it, now that the drivers work with Win2K pretty well.

Regarding quality, in general terms you get what you pay for. But for a capture card, more than $100 is too much unless you want specific things out of the ordinary. For capturing from VHS material or an analog camcorder, any descent capture card to AVI will do just fine.

[lordsmurf]

ATI AIW cards offer unsurpassed quality in the consumer level capture cards.

[elihay]

I don't play alot, therefor I don't need a high preformanse VGA card. I was thinking of getting the FX 5200, but take the VideoSuite of ASUS to include capture ability. So I am not going to replace it soon.
I got now the 6800 Delux of ASUS with VIVO, But my P3 600 wont satisfy the 640*480 capture. So I has thinking to get the 5200 with my new P4 2.6 machine.
Then I read that ATI gives better capture quality, and i can get the 9200 with vivo for even less money, but it doesn't compatible with DX9, and got worse preformance than the 5200.

and if buing a seperate capture card there are so many choises and i don't know what to get.

[lordsmurf]

All newer ATI AIW cards use DirectX, and in fact require it for MMC 8.x software. Whatever you read was old.