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[clarkmo]

If I'm not mistaken..you can get this card to capture in .avi, divx or whatever. There is just some work involved and of course, your cpu will be doing the job. An xp s/b fine. VurtualDub will capture. I had the WinTv 401 and I was capturing in divx..well not much. I never worked very hard at it. But it was doable. You can get a different driver from sourceforge as I believe this uses the Conexant bt 878 chip. Link

 

[JJMcKay]

this can send the video out to your TV set and can make a comp work as an HTPC correct?

 

[mee987]

Originally posted by: clarkmo
If I'm not mistaken..you can get this card to capture in .avi, divx or whatever. There is just some work involved and of course, your cpu will be doing the job. An xp s/b fine. VurtualDub will capture. I had the WinTv 401 and I was capturing in divx..well not much. I never worked very hard at it. But it was doable. You can get a different driver from sourceforge as I believe this uses the Conexant bt 878 chip. Link

a lot of the other wintv cards dont use an mpeg hardware encoder, so they can capture raw avi. this card can't do raw avi, and vdub definitely doesnt work for capturing.

this can send the video out to your TV set and can make a comp work as an HTPC correct?

there are no outputs on this card. its got svideo/composite in, coax in, 1/8" audio in, and a mini jack for the ir receiver. if you wanna put it on a tv you need to either get the pvr 350 or use tvout on your video card.