Capturing Advice

[Cymbrogi]

I have recently been bitten by the capturing bug, SVCDs, VCDs, DVD, etc. A friend gave me a copy of a movie in SVCD and I was hooked. I would like to convert some recordings from TIVO to DVD. I would imagine that I need some type of capture card and a DVD burner. I'm ready to spend approximately $1000 for a burner and capture card. Could anybody recommend a good capture card that would suite my needs. I looked at the capture card section and am getting confused by their abilities and what I need.

Thanks

[holistic]

Have a read here . I was bored so i did the seaching for you.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=2065

http://tivo.lightn.org/

http://tivo.samba.org/

http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=all#1.12

Option 1.It sounds like an intresting project ... just add LINUX


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$1000 - not enough ! if you want to do it right - Unless you have a nice RAID or SCSI drive setup that will sustain 30+Mb/sec for full screen (DVD spec) non compressed capture.

Option 2 Generic *.avi capture card - needs good hardrives

Option 3 Mpeg2 hardware encoder card - OK but hard to edit Mpeg2 with out loss.

Option 4.Get a canopus AVDC100 A/D converter and firewire card.
http://www.canopuscorp.com/ppt_advc100.htm
Although the most expensive option this one gives you the best all round value i think. i.e - you can back up any analog source and all you need is a harddrive that can sustain DV data rates - 3.7 Mb/sec - F all !

[kwag]

@Cymbrogi

Read here:
http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=90469&highlight=capture+wintv+kwag

[Cymbrogi]

Thanks for advise....much appreciated