What's a good, cheap, Capture Card?

[duderdude2]

Right now, I have an ADVC 1394. It can capture both analog and digital video. It costs about $160

Anyways, I need a second capture card, but it only needs analog. I don't want to spend a whole lot for one, but I'm hoping it will be similar in quality to the ADVC. It needs to capture at least at 640x480, and in the AVI format. Oh, and it needs to work with Windows XP.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[laspis59]

I used to use a Sapphire Radeon 9200 Atlantis VIVO card and it gave pretty good results and its cheap.

[duderdude2]

I could be totally wrong, but that's a capture card? From my brief search, it looks like a video card.

[laspis59]

Believe me,it is a capture card I have it in my cupboard and used it to capture off of digital TV for a year with good results.Its a VIVO card (Video In and Video Out)you would wire up your digital receiver to the Video In socket and capture.

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=471&catid=2

[duderdude2]

I believe you

Just a couple more questions, because I'm an idiot.

1) Can it accept analog video (via the yellow, white and red cables)?
2) How much did it cost?

Thanks!

[laspis59]

It will accept the yellow composite cables for the visual stream(And S-Video).But with the audio stream you can use the red and white audio leads and buy a cheap adapter (The adapter has 2 slots for the red and white audio cables to plug into and a small jack sticking out like the one you use to plug in your desktop speakers into the soundcard)plug the jack into line in,on the back of your soundcard.
It cost me only £50 pounds here in England which is cheap compared to the many other capture cards I looked at.

[winifreid]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122180

[duderdude2]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122180

I don't think that has the inputs I need (Yellow, red and white video/audio cables).

[Shocker Milwaukee]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122180

I don't think that has the inputs I need (Yellow, red and white video/audio cables).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.asp?image=14-122-180-02.JPG,14-122-180-03.JPG,...E%20-%20Retail

[duderdude2]

Well, I'll be damned. Thanks for the link winifreid and Shocker for the clairficaiton.

The reviews on the site look pretty good too. Have any of you used it? If so, is it a pretty good unit?

[winifreid]

I used the previous XP version which is a step down from thisone. I like it fine. I have a computer similair to yours and I can capture at full resolution picvideo or huffyuv.