Capturing tv shows and VHS

[whbasebl21]

Hi im looking for something to record tv shows and video tapes onto my comp so i can make those into vcds.
i have a terrible comp so can someone please tell me what i should get. here are my comp specifcations
450 mghz and 60 megs ram ill prolly upgrade on ram sometime but right now i like my comp.

Please help

[djmorgan]

Where to start.... at that memory level I guess your running 95.

To do the job properly your CPU is okay to marginal mem should be 128 min desirable over 256k.

You'll need a minimum of 20 gig HD pref ata100 fast.

You can capture by an internal device either a pci card or even agp vid card with capture device or external USB device, I think most here would recommend internal device.

If you after TV shows then obviously the vid card should have a tuner although you could capture from external tuner.

The software to capture, manipulate and process for the most part can be found on this most excellent site.

I really think until you get your harware spec right you will be disapointed with your efforts.