Buying PCMCIA capture card

[n3rdyguy]

I am about to buy a capture card for a notebook AMD 64. I have the following cards available and inside my price range:

LifeView FlyDVB-T Duo
Typhoon DVB-T Duo Digital/Analog CardBus
AVerMedia AVerTV Cardbus Plus
LifeView FlyTV CardBus
TerraTec Cinergy 400 TV mobile

I would like some recomendations. What I need to do, is capture from a video camera's S-Video output and make a DVD from it.

I have no experience with chipsets or analogue capture what so ever, so It must be very simple - I ofcourse am willing to learn some methods (encoding to dvd from a lossless format)..

[n3rdyguy]

If you don't have any info on those PCMCIA cards, then let's say, that It's not a PCMCIA card, that I need to buy. Can you recomend any of the above for PCI instead?

[tedkunich]

I am about to buy a capture card for a notebook AMD 64. I have the following cards available and inside my price range:

LifeView FlyDVB-T Duo
Typhoon DVB-T Duo Digital/Analog CardBus
AVerMedia AVerTV Cardbus Plus
LifeView FlyTV CardBus
TerraTec Cinergy 400 TV mobile

I would like some recomendations. What I need to do, is capture from a video camera's S-Video output and make a DVD from it.

I have no experience with chipsets or analogue capture what so ever, so It must be very simple - I ofcourse am willing to learn some methods (encoding to dvd from a lossless format)..


I have no information on any of the cards listed, but I have doubts that a laptop will be up to the task - most laptops, while they may have a screaming fast CPU, have slow memory and IDE bus. You may run into a lot of dropped frames due to the lack of bandwidth.

T

[LocalH]

For capturing video on a laptop, I'd recommend either a DV-analog transcoder or a USB device that has a hardware MPEG-2 encoder. I use the former with my laptop and have no problems at all capturing video and outputting DV back through the transcoder's analog output. With my particular device, I've only experienced dropped frames on extremely low-quality sources such as VHS. I've never had any problems capturing from a clean, stable source.