VIVO DVD and VCR recording

[Coligeon]

I'm in the market to purchase a VIVO video card. Once I learned about the dvd protection thing, it has halted my purchase. I am new to the VIVO area and was interested in capturing specific scenes from my DVDs and VCR's, but I'm not sure what I want to do now. I'm not trying to make illegal copies, just enjoyable scenes from movies that I'd like to capture. Is there anything I can do about this? Do some programs get rid of the lines/color disstortion? I was about to purchase the Leadtek A180vivo, but then I learned of this. Can anyone give me anymore info. about this? I heard ther eis something yo uhave to buy to get rid of the macrovision thing? That is kind of rediculous though. Why does the card even offer DVD capture if it can't even do this? All I'm wanting to do is capture 1 - 10 minute scenes. Thanks.

 

[Duvie]

For the ATI cards I know there is a macrovision defeater program...download it at www.rage3d.com...

I got to admit I have captured stills from dvds but never tried capturing or recording film...If you want that I would say get a program like dvd decryptor and rip to the hard drive the movie and use either an mpeg2 encoder program (DVD2SVCD) or Divx to put it in a format you can watch on the PC....You can isolate smaller pieces of the movie more easily.

Capturing from VCR is great and if you go ATI All in wonder route you could even capture from a TV source. capturing from DVD's in my opinion due to happening on the fly is not the most effective way to do it.

 

[Coligeon]

Thank you for the reply Duvie. I'm still a litte bit confused here though. So you think it'd be best to purchase a card with VIVO for VHS recording, but not for DVD? I should get a DVD ripper for that you say? What about a TV tuner card? Can it do anything better/differently than the VIVO card? Which would you recommend? Also, what about the DVD ripper program, what is required for that to work correctly. Thank you.

 

[kursplat]

get a VIVO card (i have an older radon all in wonder) ,that's what gives you the input\output connections you need.

 

[Coligeon]

Yes, I figure that is what I will do in the end, but the DVD recording aspect is as important to me as the VHS recording. That is why I am curious about the TV tuner card. DOes it do something special so it can record dvd movies? Can anyone recommend a DVD ripper program? Thanks.