VSH Capturing to DVD

[mrbossman]

I am in the process of building a new computer for capturing VHS tape to DVDs. I have read and read but have not found the anwsers any information would be helpfull.

I have Pioneer A03 DVD-RW CDRW Drive, I am starting from scratch with everthing else.

What Video card ?

Video Ram 32mb or 64mb ?

Video cards Matrox G450 eTV APG or ATI all-in-wonder 128 32mb AGP ?

Do these card have issues with macrovision ?

I read some cards have (macrovision) hardwear built in ?

I am looking at the Marvel G450 eTV, it has 32md of DDR Ram, APG, will It will do the job ?

http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_review/aug2001/accelenation_g450etv.cfm

http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/nov2001/home_reviews.cfm

ALL-IN-WONDER® 128 32mb AGP

http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_128/index.html

I am building the system below to use this Caption or video card.
AMD XP 1600 CPU
512 DDR Ram (planning on 1024MB DDR)
Pioneer A03 DVD-RW CDRW Drive
ADAPTEC 2940 UAW SCSI Controller
Hard Drive 30GB 7200RPM IDE ATA 100
9GB Hard Drive SCSI Externl
Sound Blaster AWE 64

Does any one know if I will need another devise to capture sound ?

Will this system configuration do what I am building it for ? (VHS to DVD)

I know I asked several questions,

Thanks for any Help

:confused: Marvel G450 eTV 32 APG (http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_review/aug2001/accelenation_g450etv.cfm ) G450 Reviews (http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/nov2001/home_reviews.cfm ) ATI ALL-IN-WONDER® 128 32mb AGP (http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_128/index.html):confused:

[Cart]

Your main concern should be the capture card, which may or may not be intergrated with your video card. Some capture cards will compress directly to a DVD-compatible MPEG-2 (I assume, anyways), whereas other will need to have the capture video recompressed to a DVD-compatible format. The first method is easier, but you can get higher quality from the second method if you capture with little compression and use a high quality MPEG-2 encoder. Of course, this will take a lot more time, effort, and disk sapce.

I've never used the capture cards you mention, so I can't provide any comments. The rest of your system looks adequate, provided you have enough free hard drive space.

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html

[mrbossman]

Thanks Cart

What kind of capture card would you recommend?

Does any one know if a capture card is going to conflict with one of these multi-functioning video cards that also does capturing?

Is a capture card less likely to drop frames on the system mentioned above?

Thanks
Mr Bossman

[Cart]

Your system look very nice for capture. You may need a bigger hard drive though, depending on how you want to capture. I don't think frame drops will be an issue if everything is comfigured properly.

A standalone capture card should work along with a multifunction device, but you don't need to buy a separate card if one is integrated with your video card. Your choice of card depends on the functionality you desire, price, etc. You can get something with DVD compatible MPEG-2 capturing, or you can use a simpler card that captures to AVI. The second option is more difficult but can produce a better image.

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html