Anybody try this capture card yet?

[jowel13]

Dazzle DM7000 DVC2

I am looking to buy an encoder card to encode all my old VHS videos and put them on DVD+R. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions? Are those new ATI All In Wonder Cards any good? (7500, 8500DV)? If I do record all my old VHS tapes on my computer, how many hours can I fit on one DVD? (Probably going to record in MPEG-1 Format because thats as good as VHS tapes get).

Thanks!!

[leohong]

I have the ATI 64 ddr Vivo for 150 bucks which works very good for me. I have been using it with VirtualDup, Tmpgenc, Nero. I have pIII 600 and 384mb ram. I got very little dropped frames when capturing from old VHS tapes and the CPU usage is about 20-30%. I use TMpgenc to encode and burn with Nero. The last time I put 93 minutes on one VCD and the result is ok. I am sure you can do better with Dvd. Make sure you have a large hard disk. The 93 min capture (350x240) takes 13 Gigs.
Good Luck.

[jowel13]

Hey,

Thanks for replying. How is the quality like on your VCD? Is it pretty much exactly how it looks from the VHS? Or does the quality suffer a lot? I am still debating whether a capture card that is dedicated to capturing (only has one purpose) produces better capturing than an All-In-One Card (gaming card, multimedia, etc.). I am willing to spend about $250 or so.

Thanks.

[leohong]

I have been using my card entirely for capturing only. That is the only reason I bought it. I think the only card that is used only for capturing is a firewire type of card which captures DV Cameras.