SATELLITE TV into computor

[DB83]

There has never, nor will there ever, be a pause function for video capture.


Just capture the lot and you can do loss-free editing quite easily after.

[jagabo]

There has never, nor will there ever, be a pause function for video capture.

It's not common but one capture program I had many years ago had a pause (recording) feature. I think it was the software that came with the Hauppauge PVR-250.

[silverstar2003]

"nor will there ever be" ..... thats a sweeping statement.... surely its not rocket science
it will probably be there in the next generation

For now I ll probly go back to my old system of playing the old videos thru
my DVD recorder.... using the pause button in there to save what I like
in aprox 2 minute video files

saving all those on a dvd

putting the dvd into my comp ... extracting the 20 or so video files using the free
handbrake software

and thats job done rw dvd s are not expensive....
though they might not be available for much longer... !
just like they stopped manufacturing video players some time ago !

all thru the 80s 90s etc I recorded bits and pieces of TV
and never re used the video tapes... thus I have a wardrobe full of
400 or so tapes to go thru and sort out the best bits.


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[DB83]

The discussion has come up fairly often.


The 'difficulty' might well have to do with disk access and not corrupting the existing file at the point of resume.


I am not familiar with the device that jagabo mentions but I always thought that Hauppauge devices, and I have owned two, including the one I use right now, used WinTV for capturing. My device uses v7 there are later versions now. The capture window does have a pause button and it does zilch other than pause what you are previewing. Everything is still captured.

[dellsam34]

"nor will there ever be" ..... thats a sweeping statement.... surely its not rocket science
it will probably be there in the next generation.

Highly unlikely, with the way Microsoft nuking any capability of capturing video in every update odds are not in your favor, Beside who does DVR like this? take a glory widescreen HD digital video from a satellite receiver and butcher it down to a crappy SD analog video just to recapture it back to digital in an inferior SD quality with chopped off sides of frame to fit in 4:3 aspect ratio. I know I wouldn't.

[silverstar2003]

No... my system of using the dvd recorder to record my old vid tapes and then get them
onto the computor works fine and gives good quality video files no probs

I paid £40 to get the vid2 PC SOFTWARE ... sadly no pause button but it will
give me the option of getting 600 plus tv channels into my comp and if nothing else having some audio
to listen to when on the internet....

But just thought of another option..... get my old videos playing on the showbiz software
then get up that free software..... Debut Video ..... and use that to capture the video playing in
the tv window.....
Debut video does have a pause button !!


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[DB83]

It sure does...


And it captures a still image until you press record again. Not really what you want is it ?