Video Capture Device

[RaGe420]

I was wondering what was the best video capture device was to capture DVD quality from a tivo to then be able to burn to dvd without have any glitches in it??

 

[TheCorm]

I doubt TIVI/VIVO would be anywhere DVD quality....I could be wrong, it may have advanced since I used it with a GF2 MX400.

Can you not just copy DVD to DVD?.....or what about using DIVX and burning to CD-R....quality is usually very good, not DVD but definately nicely watchcable on monitor or TV-Out.

Corm

 

[RaGe420]

Well I would like to take shows and movies I recorded on my tivo and put them onto dvds

I dont want them to have down graded quality by being put onto cdrs

and I dont want divx because I would like to be able to play them at other peoples places too

 

[Xionide]

maybe use vcd thats pretty universal

 

[RaGe420]

dont want vcd

anyone else know?

 

[DimZiE]

try Pinnacle's products i've been using them on my studio and it's good on capturing ....

whoops i'm sorry if it's capturing from tivo on the vga card well i don't really know

if u want an add on card i would suggest the DC1000 from pinnacle kinda pricey though ...

 

[DimZiE]

or you could export the TIVO capture and encode them to DVD format with the same card i mentioned above using Premiere 6.

a warning : i've experienced buggy results on low to mid end system specs..
the system i used to encode it to DVD format is

Athlon XP 2000+
Corsair XMS DDR400 1GBytes
a Ti 4600 DDR 128 MB
and a LS7A2 board
with 2 80 GB IBM Desktar
and of course the DC1000

hope the info helps
if u want more info check out pinnacle site here

btw i am not working for pinnacle

 

[Pauli]

I don't see the problem. Simply use the S-Video output from the Tivo to any decent Tuner/Capture card and use one of many free software utilities to capture raw or MPEG2. Personally, I would hook the Tivo up to my miniDV camera that has a pass-thru and capture in DV format. Then I would encode to MPEG2 using TMPGenc Plus and burn to DVD.

 

[RaGe420]

my ols pc was a 1700+ maybe that was my problem

I did try the 400 capture setup from pin and still had problems

but I just upgraded to a 2400+ so I will try it again

Thanks for all of your guys help and I will let you know how it works out