Good capture device for pci-e board?

[ingeborgdot]

What software would you recommend? What is supposed to be the best with the ati? When you say the 150 doesn't come with full xp software what do you mean?

[mike909]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=269170&highlight=

[ingeborgdot]

I don't know what I 've been thinking. What and idiot. I don't need a tv tuner. All I need to get is a good card with vivo. I have dish network and don't need a tuner anyway. I can run my sat into the vi. I will need a few adapters but it will work. My only question with that is will I need any type of program like beyond tv or anything like that?

[rumplestiltskin]

PVR-250 from Hauppauge is excellent. No problems; better reception via coax than my Toshiba TV. No artifacts; using the software that Hauppage provides for free. Works every time. I record at the 2 hr DVD mode (2GB/hour, more or less). Author and burn with TDA to +RW media. Plays in my cheapo Samsung DVD/VCR and Philips portable (old without built-in screen). Note that the card is PCI, not PCI-X.

[ingeborgdot]

About three years later.................
I need a capture device to run from my directv receiver to my computer to be able to use it as a pvr. What is good now days. I have a canopus for my office computer that I only use for video capture from a DV camera. I want something that has great quality capture.

[edDV]

I still use my Canopus ADVC-100 for S-Video+audio cap off the cable box. Quality is very good. It can be used with an IR blaster to change channels with BeyondTV PVR SW. Alternately I can cap HD or SD MPeg2_TS off the IEEE-1394 port.

Any other S-Video capture card could be used. The Hauppauge PVR series caps to MPeg2 and is well supported by PVR software.

So things aren't much different three years later except at the HD end.

[FulciLives]

For these more modern HDTV days of living you might want to consider the Hauppauge HD PVR

This is an external USB 2.0 unit that can capture/record at 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i (sorry but no 1080p capture/recording). It accepts S-Video and Component Video along with standard RCA stereo inputs and it even has an optical audio input as well.

Recordings can be played back on the computer or on a device such as an XboX 360 or PS3 etc.

It basically records in H.264 format.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman