Anyone use Ati AIW 128pro for DVD capturing????

[Erwin]

Anyone???? Some guy that's really into capturing told me that you need to atleast have a 64MB capturing card. What do you guys think?

[Erwin]

[BubbaLeroy]

I have one of those in one of my pc's. The best I ever got out of it was 620x240 with no loss. Works ok as a PVR but thats about it.

[Nelson37]

I have used mine succesfully for 720x480 caps, both AVI and MPG, from a DVD. But a digital rip will give much better quality.

[spiderman2k1]

If your not useing MMC 7.7 upgrade you will have lessframe drop's. Only use the ATI for TV not DVD your better off ripping DVD's to DVD-R and if you want to still capture DVD to the PC get your self a Sime Copy master for $50.00 buck you can buy one at best buy.

[Ricky2K]

I'm using the AIW 128 Pro w/120GB & 80GB HDs in Win2K with AIW 7.7 TV software burning to DVD w/ an HP DVD200i. Still not happy with the results but I'm working with it.

[mpb]

Anyone???? Some guy that's really into capturing told me that you need to atleast have a 64MB capturing card. What do you guys think?

OK, hang on a moment. Nobody *captures* DVDs. You rip them in your DVD-ROM drive. A DVD should never be played back in analog and then captured again in analog. If you need it to be smaller to fit on DVDr, then that is what DVD2One is for.

The AIW 120 pro, however, is perfectly good for capturing from TV or analog sources, including laserdiscs and videotape. It won't help you with damaged tapes (no time base corrector) and it won't break macrovision, and it's not as good as capturing with a mini-DV camcorder, but those situations aside, I have used that exact card with great results, with a Pentium 4, 1600mhz, capturing in pure software (VirtualDub) at 720x480 with no frames dropped, uncompressed. TV, laser, hi8, etc. Capturing from VHS is usually done at lower resolutions. If you try to compress on the fly, you'll need a faster system.

Then you can chop and edit with v-dub, and encode with tmpgenc. I suggest using ATI's install driver and WDM driver but leaving the MMC off your system altogether. IF you want to cap from TV, just use the VCR you have hooked up to it as the tuner. This also allows you to hook just the video up to the AIW-128-pro and the audio straight to your line-ins, so that all third-party capping stuff works, rather than ATI's convoluted passthrough scheme, which doesn't work until the later versions of the card unless you're capturing in ATI VCR.

[furball6969]

My AIW Radeon (7200) only has 32MB and captures to DVD spec (D1, halfD1) no problem.