Is This Setup Enough to Capture VHS?

[grrl]

I want to capture some short full-resolution clips from VHS to use in class. I'll be capturing from both homemade and storebought videos.

My current setup is a 1-gig Tbird, 384 megs of PC133 RAM, 13 gig ATA/66 HD for programs and 60 gig ATA/66 HD for files. I'm thinking of spending a bit more and getting something like the ProVideo PV-256 capture card because it has on-card MPEG1/2 encoding and its own audio jack.

According to their manual, the recommended setup is:

?P Pentium-III 933MHz or higher
?P 256 MB or higher system memory
?P UltraDMA4 Hard-drive or higher, not less than 7200 RPM

From that I assume I'm okay, but I'd like to read the opinions of anyone with firsthand experience. There seems to be a lot of disagreement in this forum about just how fast a system you need for video capture - I'm not so much concerned about the time it takes to work with the files, just capture at full resolution.

Also, the ProVideo manual says nothing about Macrovision. Does anyone know if this card honors it?

Thanks

 

[lobadobadingdong]

shouldn't be a big problem but the speed of your hard drive might cause some hic-ups, I'd suggest at least an ata100 7200 rpm for anybody. wanting to do streaming video. ever see a pio4 dvd player?(and they don't use compression during the stream.) what's the cost difference from an AIW 7500? Thier pretty good cards, and capable of some gaming as well.

 

[grrl]

The AIW 7500 (64 mb) is about the same price as the Provideo. I've read many things about driver problems with the All-in-Wonder, so am not sure I want to go that route. It looks like a good card though.

 

[grrl]

bump

anybody?

 

[operaghost]

I had the AIW Radeon (later called the 7200) and it was an awesome card for capturing video, both TV and VHS. I highly recommend the 7500 (same drivers as the 7200). I currently am using the AIW 9700 and it is even better.

The drawback IMO with the ATI 7500 was the software for capturing. It used ULead software whereas the 9700 uses the much better Pinnacle s/w. Of course the drawback to the 9700 is the cost.

Just my $0.02

OG