In the near future I intend on buying a Canopus ADVC-100 (realtime external analog to digital device) for converting old VHS tapes and home movies to play on my DVD player. What I plan to do is hook it up to my old laptop. The laptop came with a docking bay which adds PCI slots in which I can install a USB 2.0 card and firewire card. The system is or will be set up as follows:
(Toshiba Tecra 750DVD)
Pentium 233 MMX
128 megs EDO DRAM
External (big) HD connected via USB 2.0 card
ADVC-100 connected via firewire card
My concern is that there will be some bottlenecks and/or problems with either with CPU speed, video chipset, memory, PCI bandwidth, etc. making the additions pointless (and expensive). Any thoughts on this potential setup?
(Toshiba Tecra 750DVD)
Pentium 233 MMX
128 megs EDO DRAM
External (big) HD connected via USB 2.0 card
ADVC-100 connected via firewire card
My concern is that there will be some bottlenecks and/or problems with either with CPU speed, video chipset, memory, PCI bandwidth, etc. making the additions pointless (and expensive). Any thoughts on this potential setup?
