Capturing Sky Digital using geforce 4Ti 4400

[Buddmeister]

HELP!
I am trying to capture films off sky digital. i am new to this area, i have just learned to encode dvd's to good quality quickly. I would be very greatful if someone could tell me what i would need to connect sky to my PC and what software i would need to capture the film n sound.

Thanx

Amd Athlon XP 1800+
80Gb Hard drive
256mb DDR
Win2000
Geforce 4 Ti 4400
Pioneer A05

Is there any guides available on the net i could use?
cheers Doom9 bin a big help!!!!

[dar1us]

Welcome to Doom9 Forums and the wonderful world of capping, i'll be your british Zen Master for capturing. Here's how I may help you.


You need Need, a SCART Break-Out box (turn's SCART into Composite) *unless your sky has a Composite/S-Video line out" - wire it up to your VIVO card (I have basically the same GF4 - my old method) - Thats it.

Wire the composite to the VIVO and get a PHONO>Minijack to get the audio from the red/white sockets on the back of the sky box to the PC through ure soundcard. iuVCR will let you set the source... Get 1.22 nVidia WDM Capture Drivers (if newer, grab em and tell us about it).

Use VirtualDUB or iuVCR to capture, codecs, use HuffYUV - PicVIdeo, XVID - huff, lossless, XVID/PicVIdeo (at high rates)=pretty good.

[wotef]

leadtek usually have the newest nvidia capture drivers - though they call them "winfast myvivo" drivers, it is in fact the nvidia wdm package

ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/GeForce4_MyVIVO_Series/Driver/021029/Windows/ALL_WDMDRV_21029.exe