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Anyone with a Hauppauge 150/250 have any sample clips?

aphex

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Bought my current Leadtek Deluxe just to watch tv, but now that im about to convert all my old VHS to DVD, thought it might be a worthwile upgrade to go hardware based...

Anyone have any sample clips recorded from the cards?

I would love to see a tv sample and a sample from another input source (vhs, etc)

 
I have both a Ledtek and a PVR150 in another box. Honestly, the image quality is very similar for the most part. The PVR only uses about 1/2 as much of the cpu though: 40% vs. 20%.

Hope this helps.

Ed
 
Originally posted by: Nessism
I have both a Ledtek and a PVR150 in another box. Honestly, the image quality is very similar for the most part. The PVR only uses about 1/2 as much of the cpu though: 40% vs. 20%.

Hope this helps.

Ed
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Really? So the big difference is just in CPU?

Well my A64 3200+ dosent seem to mind my encoding much, so maybe i should stick with what i got....
 
Well, if you use your CPU you cannot encode to highest quality streams right away.

The hardware encoder on the other hand cannot encode to anything it doesn't have built-in, which IIRC is only mpeg2 for that card, so no mpeg4/divx. But the mpeg2 from the hardware encoder should be better than what you can do with your CPU in real time.

When I capture I compress on very lightly and almost lossless to motion jpeg (huge files) and then I let the computer munch on it overnight.
 
Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
Well, if you use your CPU you cannot encode to highest quality streams right away.

The hardware encoder on the other hand cannot encode to anything it doesn't have built-in, which IIRC is only mpeg2 for that card, so no mpeg4/divx. But the mpeg2 from the hardware encoder should be better than what you can do with your CPU in real time.

When I capture I compress on very lightly and almost lossless to motion jpeg (huge files) and then I let the computer munch on it overnight.
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Well right now i can go straight to divx and mpg, but ive had a few audio synching problems...
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
Well, if you use your CPU you cannot encode to highest quality streams right away.

The hardware encoder on the other hand cannot encode to anything it doesn't have built-in, which IIRC is only mpeg2 for that card, so no mpeg4/divx. But the mpeg2 from the hardware encoder should be better than what you can do with your CPU in real time.

When I capture I compress on very lightly and almost lossless to motion jpeg (huge files) and then I let the computer munch on it overnight.
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Well right now i can go straight to divx and mpg, but ive had a few audio synching problems...
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I've used a TV Wonder VE and a PVR150. The output quality in MPEG2 is comparable, maybe slightly better on the PVR150 (hard to gauge directly, since I'm usually using VBR on the PVR150, which the TV Wonder didn't support). Obviously, raw uncompressed AVI from the TV Wonder was better, but that's hardly a fair fight. 😛
 
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