DVD Drive, or Video Capture?

Sir Enji · Post by **Sir Enji** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:51 pm

which is the better way of getting video from anime DVDs? In other words, should I buy a DVD reader drive? Or should I buy a video capture card? What specific pieces of hardware do you recommend?

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:57 pm

dvd drive. fastest, easiest and cheapest way of geting footage from dvd's

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:37 pm

dvd drive *nod nod

capture card is for capturing from a cam or vcr or console

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:55 am

DVD is also the best quality.

Also using a DVD player hooked into a capture card might not work due to the copy protection on the disc. So you'd doublely screw yourself over getting a capture card.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:56 am

DVD Player + Video capture will often result in problems from the copyprotection (Macrovision) And gets you dramaticly less quality.

DVD Ripping is ideal, yes.