For all you capturing guru's .....

[Xtreme]

I have not captured audio and video before, but i very curious on what is the best way to capture T.V shows, DVD's, Camcorders, & VCR tapes ?
I am wanting to be able to capture in MPEG 1 or MPEG 2, all resolutions and with the best quality. Can someone tell we the best way to do this and with what products ?

Thanks you very much !

[Xtreme]

By the way i have this so far and wondering if this will just work and maybe all i need is the software ..... or is there something better i should get that is faster and overall gives better performance ?

Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80 #DM-5400

http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/029061.html

[fmctm1sw]

Well, I'm no capturing "guru" but... I do each of the things you mentioned with a simple TV tuner card (Wintv Radio). I simply connect whatever I want to the card and cap with Virtualdub. It is better to rip the dvd (see newbie guides) but since I have no internal dvd player, I can't do that. The card has RCA, S-video and coax inputs. Your best sources will be like satellite tv boxes and such. I'm not real sure you can cap to MPG-2 with a DVC-80. I think that is a USB device which sometimes get a bad rap. I'm not sure you're going to get the resolution you want out of that.

[darc.zen]

As far as capturing TV I would recomend Intervideo's WinDVR 2.0
so far this has the best Mpeg Capture I have found....and I've tried alot of software.

For capturing VCR tape's I would go with the same, WinDVR

When it comes to DVD, however, you can make pretty descent captures,
but ripping it, and re encoding it is much better quality.

To do this use Clad DVD XP, this is killer, it even does the ifo parsing for ya.

Then once your dvd is ripped to your hardrive, use TMPG to re encode it to Mpeg 1 or 2 (I make SVCD's myself)

Then once your file is done cookin burn it with Nero or VCD Easy.

There is some GREAT Guides on Doom -

http://www.doom9.org

Hope this helps you out.....and welcome to the show