On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:03 PM, fddffd fddf wrote:
Im wondering which option tends to obtain the best quality capture:
Option 1: Use a TV Tuner card to capture direct from cable signal or
VCR Playback to the hd of the system.
Option 2: Use a VCR for the cable tuner and use a composite to fire
wire to the fire wire card in my computer.
My purposes are;
1) Capture broadcast shows and make vcd's for the wife and kids...(god
forbid they miss an episode of yu-gi-oh....).
2) Capture REALLY old video taped shows and home movies on my old hi-8
video camera.
You will probably need a combination of both. For the old video tapes,
get the best quality you can by using Firewire. If you have a new
Digital8 camera, you can use that as a capture device for your old Hi-8
tapes. Or, if you have another DV camera a lot of times they have Video
In so you can use the new camera as a capture device to Firewire from
either a VCR or your old Hi-8 camera.
For the taping of programs to VCD you should probably use a tuner card
along with a Linux PVR program like Freevo
(http://freevo.sourceforge.net/) or MythTV (http://mythtv.org/).
Michael
