Choosing the capture device without hardware compression

[kb1985]

Hi,
due to major problems with false macrovision on my ATI RAdeon 9200 I've decided to buy a different capture device. I was thinking about Pinnacle DC10+ but it has MJPEG hardware compression that can't be swithched off. For some reasons I need to capture uncompressed video through svideo/cinch. Coul you please recommend me any device? I've looked through Capture Card List but can't determine wich cards can capture uncemopressed video without this usefull-but-not-for-me MPEG/MJPEG compression. I just want to capture the video, don't need any tuners/special effect support on the card. Should I chose PCI device? Or maybe USB 2.0 is ok? Don't want to have any audio/video sync problems.

greetings
semp

[thecoalman]

One name........ Canopus. Expensive but you won't be disappointed. Easy to use, very good quality, 0 dropped frames and impossible for the audio to go out of sync.

BTW stay away from any USB device.

[BrainStorm69]

If you want something much cheaper than the Canopus, you might try the AverMedia DVD EZMaker PCI. I have a couple of them that I got for $10 after rebate that work very well for me.

Check out the comments:

https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.php?CaptureCardRead=213#comments

I don't use the capture software that came with it. I use VirtualVCR with the Huffyuv codec to capture to avi.

[brookelh]

I am using the AverMedia DVD EZMaker PCI as well. You can also use iuVCR for the capture. The packaged software only does MPEG capture, so you will have to get some other software.