TDK indiCapture Issues

[gsnell]

Hi all. I just recently purchased the TDK indCapture. The capture device came with Showbiz capturing software. The software works fine and I have successfully created some DVD's with the software. My issue is why won't this device work with other capturing software. I have WinDVD Version 4.0 and I've also tried Windows XP Movie Maker and neither of these software programs see the IndiCapture device. Is this piece of equipment software specific? I think that is pretty lame that TDK would have their equipment work with only one software program. I would appreciate any feedback from others that have this capture device.

[lordsmurf]

TDK is smart for making it only work with their software.

Too many companies rely on 3rd party junk, and Windows Movie Maker and WinDVR top the garbage list of capture programs.

I've had my eye on this piece of hardware for a while ... does it really do high quality interlaced MPEG-2, and do you have full options to change bitrate, audio, etc?

It's a pretty new item, so good luck finding others with it.

[gsnell]

The showbiz software that came with the IndiCapture is fairly robust. It does allow you to change the bit rate for capturing. I don't know about the audio portion though. I just recently got into this capture stuff and I'm still learning all the ins and outs of it. I'm having to learn this IndiCapture as I go and experiment. The manual that came with the device is very lame. (Bare minimal information) and TDK's website isn't much better for answers. I have a large Video collection and I want to convert them to DVD. One issue I've run across is that the indicapture can detect if the video is copyrighted or not. If it detects copyright in the stream, it will disable the capture feature. TDK was wise to do this but it stinks for those of us that want to move our collections to DVD.

[LRD]

gsnell

How are the captures with this product? Is the picture quality good--excellent?

Thanks

LRD

[Exodus]

The TDK IndiCapture is a piece of shit and not worth the 100-150 bucks paid for it, I have the worthless pile of plastic sitting in a box collecting dust now after finding the Showbiz software actually does suck and theres nothing you can do about it, the capture quality is blocky and distorted just trying to get a better quality that will still look like shit will cost you 10X the amount of space and you will still be dissapointed with the quality it does not allow encoding with any other codecs but it's own. I do not reccomend this product and it surley was the last product I ever bought from TDK.