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Rugalbernstein
3241th Post
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"USB Capture cards..."
, posted Tue 7 Jan 20:11
I'm probably buying myself one Thursday. I'll be able to do captures here, then... anyway, anyone have previous experience with them? Any horror stories I should know about? All I really want to do is capture some game footage with it, so I didn't want to get anything expensive.
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Marcel van der List 26th Post
Rare Customer
"Re(1):USB Capture cards..."
, posted Wed 8 Jan 03:36
Hi,
make sure: the manifacturer of the capture card is still in business. I have a old capture card from AIMS LAB and that firm is gong so no more driver updates. I still haven't found XP drivers for the Video Highway Xtreme...
make sure: it supports PAL and NTSC signals.
make sure: it's compatible with the OS you use.
make sure: you buy the right card. You can buy a cheap capture card if you want to capture on average quality, on 320*240 and so on. Do not expect Hi-Res DVD quality footage from a cheap card. Cheap = under 100 euro/dollar.
make sure: you have the right tool. The card comes with software, but there are some awesome capture/tv freeware/shareware tools on the net. I use DScaler, a very hefty program with 1001 setting, switches and so on. Problem is that this program only works then the capture card has a TV Tuner onboard.
"USB Capture cards..." 
