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Looking for analog video/audio capture card

Postby Bushido Philosopher » Fri Mar 28, 2003 2:19 am

Okay, since getting video game footage is getting to be such a pain in the ass these days, I decided that I would start saving up for a capture card.

But all the video capture cards that I find all convert DV into analog or only have an S-Video or antennae input support.

What I want is to hook up my PS2 (specifically the yellow, red, and white cables) to a capture card so that I can get it to something conventional like Huffyuv video and PCM audio.

Anyone know any ones of those that are pretty good?
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Postby TaranT » Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:09 am

Adaptec has some new products:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/prodtechindex.html?sess=no&cat=%2fTechnology%2fVideo&source=solutions
Two of them capture to MPEG2 (hardware compression). One captures to MJPEG (that may be hardware-based, too) and is the cheapest at about $50.

These are all aimed at consumers who want to make DVDs and VCDs. But the captures go to your hard drive first, so they should work for what you want; just skip the DVD production part.

CompUSA carries them.
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Wed Apr 02, 2003 11:51 pm

To answer my own question, here's something that I found at Pinnacle. It's a simple S-Video, Analog Video, and Stereo Audio in to USB 2.0 output cable!

<A HREF=http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage.aspProduct_ID=521&Langue_ID=7>Pinnacle LINX USB Plus</A>

And since it's Pinnacle I know that I can reasonably trust it. I just wish that I can try these thigns out, yknow? Sometimes their description of a product doesn't really tell you if it can do what you want. Damn all the dishonest people out there...
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:28 pm

Odd.....that doesn't look like the same product...
Maybe they did find a few problems and made a better version?
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Postby TaranT » Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:16 am

I think that yellow one is the first model they sold. There's another one that is black with cable-ends instead of the block of plastic.
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Sat Apr 05, 2003 3:07 am

TaranT wrote:I think that yellow one is the first model they sold. There's another one that is black with cable-ends instead of the block of plastic.


<A HREF=http://www.epinions.com/cmhd-Video_Capture-All-Pinnacle_Systems_Linx_USB_Plus_Video_Capture_Cable_210100247>THIS ONE</A> is what I was looking at. No reviews though. I may just try it if I can't find anything else.
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Postby Invincible Dawn » Mon Apr 07, 2003 7:10 am

I have the older version Pinnacle USB 1.1. It sucks big time.
A friend of mine has the Pinnacle PCI version. Pretty good for making VCDs but accasionally, has audio drops even though he's using P4 1.6 with ample memory.

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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:17 pm

Invincible Dawn wrote:I have the older version Pinnacle USB 1.1. It sucks big time.
A friend of mine has the Pinnacle PCI version. Pretty good for making VCDs but accasionally, has audio drops even though he's using P4 1.6 with ample memory.


So.....can anyone suggest something else if it sucks so bad then?
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Postby Invincible Dawn » Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:53 pm

Heres one i'm using right now. I'm pretty satisfied with this one and its cheap. About $249. Unfortunately, it has no video out. I'm using my videao card for that.
The other model/box has video in/out though.

ADVC-1394
http://www.canopus.com/index.asp

Some might suggests an even better and cheaper one. Just wait a while.

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Postby tomj » Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:53 am

Equivalent to this is the ADVC100 which has analogue in and out. Not sure what its price is like these days (bought one in Japan - the external model - for JPY30,000.)
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Re: Looking for analog video/audio capture card

Postby ongakuka » Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:35 pm

Ko Oh Yoku wrote:Okay, since getting video game footage is getting to be such a pain in the ass these days, I decided that I would start saving up for a capture card.

But all the video capture cards that I find all convert DV into analog or only have an S-Video or antennae input support.

What I want is to hook up my PS2 (specifically the yellow, red, and white cables) to a capture card so that I can get it to something conventional like Huffyuv video and PCM audio.

Anyone know any ones of those that are pretty good?


As long as you have the HD, I recommend doing analog->DV capture. It's a very edit friendly, *fast* codec when working with dedicated hardware.

If you want just a straight analog in card, I used to use a WinTV PCI (Hauppauge?) card, worked nicely for short clips (320x240, a few minutes in length). If you want to capture anything larger than 320x240 (approx) @ 29.97 FPS, you're going to have to get something Firewire/1394 based and that's generally DV.
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Postby kthulhu » Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:19 pm

And yet again. If the last post is more than a week old, don't bother replying...
I'm out...
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Postby ongakuka » Tue Jun 24, 2003 11:24 pm

kthulhu wrote:And yet again. If the last post is more than a week old, don't bother replying...



If you don't want to post, that's fine. If I think I can contribute to the discussion (even if it's old), someone else in a similar predicament might benefit from it.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:09 am

Fuck off you retarded necroposting newbie. This thread is two months old.
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