Best win2k capture card?

[danofborg]

Hi All,

This has been a fantastically informative website so i thought i'd like to get the opinions of some of you on what video capture card you would recommend for my pc;

Win2k sp2
abit kr7a-raid
tbird 1gig oc to 1.2
asus agp v8200 w/vivo wdw driver hell
768 meg ddr 2100
40 gig ata133 maxtor

I've read the hardware comments and since I want to make great quality svcd to play on my apex ad-1500 I narrowed down the huge list to just these three cards:

1. Avermedia AverTV Studio Tv Tuner Card (pci)
2. Hauppauge WinTV FM (pci)
3. Visontek xtasy cinema everything (agp)

I would like to use a pci based solution to keep the costs down since the v8200 does everything else great. I use vdub, tmpgec, iuvcr, dvd2svcd, nero, cctsp, and vcdeasy. I don't know what software comes w/the above listed cards so your input would be great on that. If anyone has recommendations not on the list i would be happy to hear them also Theres a ton of stuff to learn about this so I would appreciate any help! Thank you in advance

Dan.

[danofborg]

anybody?

[El_Seed]

I use the Avermedia AverTV Stereo Tv Tuner Card, it has excellent video and sound quality. Works well with VirtualVcr, Ulead Videostudio 6, WinDVR, pretty much any WDM capture software. No audio/video sync problems. Ive tried capturing video for over an hour with VirtualVCR & WinDVR, perfect audio/video sync. It seems like a lot of people have trouble getting audio to be captured when they capture video. I had the same problem initially, but realized that it wasnt the Tuner card's fault. To get audio capture to work properly you have to properly configure audio recording through your soundcard in the "Sounds & Multimedia" in the Windows 2000 control panel.
I have it installed on my Windows 2000 system so I can capture large files on the NTFS formatted drives. I havnt used the other two cards listed in the poll.