Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:56 am
Video Capture
Hi guys, I'm looking for a bit of advice and hope that somebody here might be able to help....
About a year ago I bought a custom machine and added what I thought was a ATI Radeon 9000Pro All-in-Wonder. For those that don't know, that particular card apart from providing very nice graphics also allows for video capture from an s-video source, something that I wanted to play around with when I got the time. Anyway, last week I finally got around to playing with it and discovered to my horror that the **** that put my machine together had given me the bog-standard Radeon 9000Pro, and not the All-in-Wonder (which I payed for!!), which only has TV-Out and not S-Video in. I'm absolutely gutted...I never checked at the time because I was preparing to move house and was very very busy, I was just glad the machine turned up before my move. Stupid mistake, I feel like an idiot now. Anyway, that aside, I still want to do some video capture - in fact I have a client lined up expecting it! So I've been looking into my options....
Ideally I'd like to buy an Osprey card - I know these are the best because I used to work for an internet broadcast company and they tried pretty much every encoder on the market - however, I'm on a very very tight budget at the moment so its simply not an option.
I checked out the ATI website yesterday and found a card called the ATI TV-Wonder Pro which slots into your machine to complement the 9000Pro and gives all of the extra features of the 9000Pro All-in-wonder....sounds perfect to me, and it fits my budget (about £50)....however I can't find any for sale anywhere apart from the US Ebay, and the only ones there are the VE version which is the older, less cool, version. Does anyone know anything about this card? Pros? Cons? Is it still around? Is it new and hasn't been released yet?
My only other alternative appears to be the Belkin VideoBus II USB, which is a bit cheap and nasty but it might do the trick. I'm looking for a capture device that will accept an analogue source such as a VHS or TV signal - any suggestions?
About a year ago I bought a custom machine and added what I thought was a ATI Radeon 9000Pro All-in-Wonder. For those that don't know, that particular card apart from providing very nice graphics also allows for video capture from an s-video source, something that I wanted to play around with when I got the time. Anyway, last week I finally got around to playing with it and discovered to my horror that the **** that put my machine together had given me the bog-standard Radeon 9000Pro, and not the All-in-Wonder (which I payed for!!), which only has TV-Out and not S-Video in. I'm absolutely gutted...I never checked at the time because I was preparing to move house and was very very busy, I was just glad the machine turned up before my move. Stupid mistake, I feel like an idiot now. Anyway, that aside, I still want to do some video capture - in fact I have a client lined up expecting it! So I've been looking into my options....
Ideally I'd like to buy an Osprey card - I know these are the best because I used to work for an internet broadcast company and they tried pretty much every encoder on the market - however, I'm on a very very tight budget at the moment so its simply not an option.
I checked out the ATI website yesterday and found a card called the ATI TV-Wonder Pro which slots into your machine to complement the 9000Pro and gives all of the extra features of the 9000Pro All-in-wonder....sounds perfect to me, and it fits my budget (about £50)....however I can't find any for sale anywhere apart from the US Ebay, and the only ones there are the VE version which is the older, less cool, version. Does anyone know anything about this card? Pros? Cons? Is it still around? Is it new and hasn't been released yet?
My only other alternative appears to be the Belkin VideoBus II USB, which is a bit cheap and nasty but it might do the trick. I'm looking for a capture device that will accept an analogue source such as a VHS or TV signal - any suggestions?
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