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[5489]

what program do you guys capture with? I want the maximum quality. I want it to look like the smallville episodes you d/l from Morpheus. I would like to capture Smallville, and simpsons. What do you guys recomend? I have an ATI TV WONDER.

 

[Jejunum]

wintv capture came w/ my card
then i convert to divx
to bad my quality sucks cauze of antenna reception!

 

[bigrash]

I have wintv capture too. but i'm wondering also what everyone else uses

 

[5489]

Is wintv freeware?

 

[5489]

anybody use anything else?

 

[The Stigenator]

I have an ATI TV Wonder and I use its software to capture.

At teh highest setting (like what i used the other day to capture), the 1 minute of video was like 90MB.. a lower quality would have done fine, mine was over excessive.

 

[5489]

when i try to capture with anything other than VideoCD, then the resulting file says error. Anyone know why this is happening?

 

[Praetor]

Oohhhh, so you're trying to be a cheapskate and do some capturing for free, eh? j/k

I use a few different solutions, the first one is free, the others... aren't as free.

One of the best freeware/opensource solutions (if not the best period) for video capture/editing is VirtualDub. What I do is combine that with the MJPEG codec to initially capture the video. It cuts down the video size drastically compared to a raw capture and does it on the fly with no loss on my P3/500. I then take the saved video and save it as a DivX ;-) 4.02 file with MP3 audio. Do a search on Google for MP3 codecs to use. I managed to snag the MJPEG codec when they were giving it away via e-mail registration early on. Now it's something like $18. Well worth it, IMO. There are keygens out there for it if that's what you're looking for though.

For my actual hardware, I have a WinTV-PCI something-something. The software that comes with it sucks, save for one part. There was a simple program called VIDCAP32.exe that came with it and is no longer distributed on the website that works perfectly. Low memory usage compared to most other programs I've used previous (save VirtualDub), plain and simple interface that gets the job done. I love it. I'd have to move the captured file elsewhere (VirtualDub) for post-processing and converstion, but hey.

My current fav. for regular TV watching and time-shifting is WinDVR. I haven't figured out whether or not you can save the files and watch them on another computer without installing WinDVR on that machine or not, but it kicks ass so far.

All-in-all, I'd try out that first solution. Just thought I'd let you know some of the things I use.