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| exodus 301th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Capture card questions..."
, posted Tue 8 Oct 11:07
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Allright, I've decided to purchase one of my own. A few simple questions: What's a good price for one of decent quality? And does anybody have any idea why one wouldn't capture from a home console system? I wish to avoid this problem when I get one of my own.
gyarr, I was hoping Sklathill would answer this, because all I know about the subject I know because I heard it from him.
a good price is roughly 130$ nowadays. In terms of capturing, most still use the chip from the Rage Fury Pro, which is what I have. The Radeon 1500 and 3500 for example also use this. Their higher prices have not much to do with capture ability, and more to do with their 3D power.
There are better cards out there, like the newer Gforces and such. But to check the difference, see Insert Credit's Sly Cooper videos, done with my Rage Fury Pro, vs our Ikaruga videos done with Vince's Gforce. But! my video quality improved when I moved to windows 2000, and I don't have an 3D game footage taken from that time (2D looks rather crappy, as you've seen from my KOF vids...Gforce may handle this better?). Also, the Ikaruga vids were encoded with higher framerate, etc so they look a bit better anyway. But take it as you will.
As for why not to capture...what do you mean? uh...I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. It won't explode or anything. I've honestly no idea what you're talking about there ^_^
hope it helps some.
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| Holiday 1451th Post
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|  "Re(1):Capture card questions..."
, posted Tue 8 Oct 20:58
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Allright, I've decided to purchase one of my own. A few simple questions: What's a good price for one of decent quality? And does anybody have any idea why one wouldn't capture from a home console system? I wish to avoid this problem when I get one of my own.
NVidia's capture cards are quite good, and you should get a decent one for around ~USD100 (that's based on the stuff I can find in Malaysia, mind you :).
It's a bit difficult capturing from consoles because unlike a TV, different consoles can output different stuff (PAL, NTSC, 50~60khZ signals etc.), so some signals aren't compatible with the format the capture cards can accept.
What you probably need to overcome this problem would be to use an upscan converter or a signal converter. More $$$ :p
To my experience, the best captures I've done, from best to worst are from:
1) Dreamcast's VGA box, beautiful :)
2) component video (RGB/YRB)
3) s-video
4) normal rf cable / composite video
But finding a capture card which accepts component video can be pricey. S-video is a good alternative and can be found on most cards these days.
Also bear in mind that the software and capture codec is very important. Some cards come with a prebundled capture software, and using that might not be the best choice. That's why you might see a difference between a capture done using different machines/operating systems even though the capture card is the same. Always get the latest drivers and use the best capture software you can get your hands on.
Happy capturing!
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