capture from TV
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Re: capture from TV
You need and analogue capture device. They allow you to connect an analogue, and sometimes digital, video source to your PC.dirkman12 wrote:how do i hook up a TV to my computer? i have no idea
These can be either USB, Firewire or PCI.
I use a Pinnacle PCTV PCI card for my analogue TV captures.
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Pinnacle Makes both external boxes that connect between the video device and your computer's FireWire or USB-2 port as well as cards (PC boards) that plug into a PCI slot inside your PC.
The most popular video capture cards are the various TV-Wonder and All-In-Wonder cards made by ATI.
I have a Hauppauge PVR-250 which has a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. This means your CPU doesn't have to do any work to encode. But, it only captures in MPEG-2 which doesn't edit very well.
Most of the internal cards have a TV tuner, so you can watch TV on you PV, or use it as a TiVo.
The most popular video capture cards are the various TV-Wonder and All-In-Wonder cards made by ATI.
I have a Hauppauge PVR-250 which has a built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. This means your CPU doesn't have to do any work to encode. But, it only captures in MPEG-2 which doesn't edit very well.
Most of the internal cards have a TV tuner, so you can watch TV on you PV, or use it as a TiVo.