Rookie question here. Is it possible to take a PCI device (e.g., a PCI capture card) and put it in an external enclosure for portability? Asking because I own a capture card but wanted to be able to transport it to/from work. If these things don't exist, how hard would it be to build one?
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I don't even know how to begin answering that one
Is this capture card simply a FireWire card or is it something akin to an expensive hardware encoder? -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pci+extender
from google:
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/pci/
Looks like the one you are looking for is not exactly portable. Avid used a similar box when apple made the G3's with only 3 or 4 PCI slots, a great big box for 6 or more cards, with it's own power supply. I would also say that cheap is not going to be the word. Unless that card cost you more the about $500, it might be just as cost effective to buy another card and leave them installed in the 2 machines.
check that here is the price list:
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/pci/pdf/pci_exp_prices.pdf
So unless your card cost around $3000, don't bother with these types of special purpose extensions.Hope is the trap the world sets for you every night when you go to sleep and the only reason you have to get up in the morning is the hope that this day, things will get better... But they never do, do they? -
It might be cheaper to just put a firewire card in all your machines and to use something like ADSTech PYRO AV Link.
http://www.adstech.com/products/API-752/intro/api752intro.asp?pid=API-752
Definately alot less time consuming! -
Originally Posted by rallynavvie
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Hope is the trap the world sets for you every night when you go to sleep and the only reason you have to get up in the morning is the hope that this day, things will get better... But they never do, do they?
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Originally Posted by mrmungus
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Yeah, I could see using it for the DV Storm since it's a $1200 card, but even then its a pretty expensive deal. I second the suggestion of getting a USB or FireWire device instead. You'll end up spending less than the PCI device you want.
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