what rigs ya'll use for video capture?

[tigerHung]

my capturing rig:
ASUS A7V motherboard modified bios from www.tweakhardware.com that turned the onboard promise controller into a RAID controller
to that I got 2 diamond max 30GB harddrives RAID0 the harddrives have the silient feature disabled
I also got a 30GB system drive and a 80GB HD that I use for editing after capture
Tbird 1GHz
enermax 430 watt power supply
aluminum case
WinME(I wont move to win XP or win2000 because they dont allow you to disable virtual memory)
512MB cas2 ram @133MHZ
baycooler 3 for my RAID drives
soundbasterd live(original)
netgear nic
pioneer 16xDVD
cornerstone f1200 17.5" LCD monitor(CRT are just too hard on my eyes)
ASUS V7000 delux with GeForce 2
virtual memory disabled(always) havent had a crash in 2 months at least
and then it was media player trying to play an asf
miro dc30+ and AVIIO full version(yes I bought this software it is much better then virtual dub at capturing)

 

[TCPpacket]

ECS K7S5A Motherboard (using onboard sound)
AMD XP 1700
256MB cas2 Crucial RAM
2 Maxtor 45 GB (1 for storage, 1 for capturing raw AVI)
1 Maxtor 60 GB (storage)
1 Western Digital 60 GB (storage)
Hauppauge Win-TVD
Windows XP Professional

I have a pretty simple system, but it gets the job done. I use VirtualDub for capturing and get a few dropped frames, but not enough for me to care.

 

[sohcrates]

Ummm...rig is listed in sig. I use my main one for capturing.

I input video through a dazzle digital video creator 80 (USB)

Sound goes through my soundblaster

I use virtualdub to capture, following the guides on vcdhelp.com

Works pretty well, though i sometimes wish i could figure out a better compression scheme....files are so big!

 

[rbV5]

Rig's in the Sig.

Using my AIW 7500 and a 75GB NTFS RAID 0 capture array (2X40GB Maxtor) using the AIW analog tuner to capture analog cable and the digital cable box via composite video-in for the digital channels.
I use my array for my captures and editing, typically capture 720X480 huffyuv codec with the ATI digital VCR if I'm burning to CD or just capture straight to Divx @ 320X240 6000kb using 3.11a codec if I'm just going to watch it later.

I edit in Adobe Premiere v6 and process with VirtualDub, I use Nandub to encode my files using 2pass SBC and the 3.11a codec, 1 CD for films under 2hours and 2 CD for films longer than 2 hours typically. IQ is very good with the final encodes.

Using Windows XP pro.

 

[NicColt]

A7V with 1.33/266 Tbird at 13x100=1300 with 512 mem and 40G + 30G with win2K and AIW Radeon

I use Guide+ mostly capture TV shows at 320x240 with MPEG1 at 1.14Mb/sec so 2x30 minute show or 1 one hour show fits on a cdrw.

for more quality captures I captue at MPEG2 at 4Mb/sec and use Vegas Video to do whatever I want with it but I mostly render it to VCD or to WMV. depending on what I need it for.