Looking for analog video/audio capture card

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **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?

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:09 am

Adaptec has some new products:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/produc ... =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.

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **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. ... 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...

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 3:29 am

A couple of LINX reviews are here:
http://www.epinions.com/cmhd-Video_Capt ... y_~reviews

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **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?

TaranT · Post by **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.

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **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_Capt ... 00247>THIS ONE</A> is what I was looking at. No reviews though. I may just try it if I can't find anything else.

Invincible Dawn · Post by **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.

Invincible Dawn

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **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?

Invincible Dawn · Post by **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.

Invincible Dawn