Tv tuner help

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Sun May 07, 2006 11:16 pm

What about coxiale cables ?

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun May 07, 2006 11:18 pm

Joe88 wrote:What about coxiale cables ?

If you're refering to using a 75ohm co-ax TV cable, using an RF adaptor, that would actually be the WORST option.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:09 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:Guys, composite and S-Video just kinda SUCK. It's what you get when you capture from those cables.

The only real way to get a decent capture from a PS2 is to use it's RGB out and capture, then it'll dump a much cleaner, true 640x480 VGA image instead of a lesser, for TV format.

You're right, but what's it going to cost? Component video (RGB) capture is pretty much limited to professional gear. Canopus has some products, like the ADVC-500, but they start at $1200 and go up from there.

S-video is still pretty good. Basically, it's 480i (S-video) vs 480p (RGB, PS2).

BTW, there is a box from ADS Tech called the Pyro A/V Link which claims to capture component video (cost about $200). But it's the old component video - interlaced YUV - not true RGB. More about that here.

siragin · Post by **siragin** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:02 pm

hmm. my computer has a windows firewall on it. don't know if that means it has a firewall port on it, if it does i have no idea were it is. can't tell you what the name of the tv tuner is because i am on another computer. i think its called gadmie or something like that. the tv tuner itself is connected with a usb cable, but i can connect other devices to the tv tuner by the s-video thing, a cable ready line and those three red white and yellow cords like when you connect a dvd player to your tv. i could use either of those but i don't think the ps2 has a s-video link. the tv tuner can capture up to 720 x 480. at first i said 350 x 240 but i meant 320 x 240 sorry. but i does look a lot better when i capture it at 320 x 240 then save it at 640 x 480, but it looks like when you're looking at video game clips that be on the web site. it looks good to me but it doesn't look like it does when i'm playing it on tv. i'm using wmm, windows media encoder, and vegas studios 6 to capture it.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:50 pm

Not "firewall"...Firewire.
Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:41 am

siragin wrote:i could use either of those but i don't think the ps2 has a s-video link.

It does, you simply have to buy one.

~$30

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:52 pm

I'm holding on for one of these babies
http://digitalnow.com.au/product_pages/QuattroS.html

If you have normal PCI (that one was PCIe), try the DNTV Live Pro, or one of their others from here http://digitalnow.com.au/products.html