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Best Video Cards for Video Capture?

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Splitfyre

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I'm trying to spec out a machine right now for a family member and they want to do video capture. What video card would you suggest for this purpose? All the video cards that seem to get the most hype are those for gaming....

Any help would be great 😀
 
IMHO, you're best off using a standalone PCI capture card. If you buy a combo video card/TV tuner card (like an ATI "All In Wonder" or NVIDIA "Personal Cinema" model), you lose the video capture functionality when you upgrade the card. OTOH, if you only need video-in (for instance, if you are capturing from a VCR, or you have digital cable and need to use a STB), you can get many cards with VIVO functionality for essentially the same price as a regular video card.

I'm currently using the new Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150MCE (hardware MPEG2 encoding) in my HTPC; it's a pretty solid card for watching TV, since the CPU usage is very low and the quality is excellent. Before that I had an ATI TV Wonder VE (software encoding; works with DScaler, but not SageTV or the new Windows Media Center Edition 2005). It worked, but ate up ~80-90% of my CPU to timeshift in BeyondTV 3.
 
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