Capturing via tv-tuner help

brharris · Post by **brharris** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:12 pm

I want to use VideoStudio 9 to capture video from my tv-tuner card, the MSI Theater 550 pro, to my hard drive. Trouble is, I am plugging into the composite port of the tv-tuner and VideoStudio only wants to capture cable TV. I have my cable connected to the card as well (in a different port), and videostudio gives me the option of which channel want to capture from. So basically, i see no way to toggle videostudio to take the input from my composite port rather than my cable port. Anyone know how? An additional question, my capture card has a hardware mpeg-2 encoder on it, can I get videostudio to use that capability when I do capture?

Thanks,
Brian

michaeltee · Post by **michaeltee** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:06 am

Most TV Tuner devices designate a channel number for your S-Video and Composite inputs, for example Composite = Channel 200 and S-Video = Channel 210. This would allow a capture utility to "see" those inputs as "cable" channels. Usually you can customize these properties from your card's tuner setup UI.

-Mike

KiwiJock · Post by **KiwiJock** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:39 am

Hi
Not sure if I am missing the point but I am doing the same thing.
Capturing using MPEG format, under options/video and audio capture property settings/source tab/video input source and there is a choice of video tuner, video composite and video s-video.
Tuner should give you tv, which is what I get, assuming this will be your cable and i use composite to collect from VHS video player, haven't tried S-video
hope this helps
cheers
kiwijock

brharris · Post by **brharris** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:30 am

ah, it was I, not you who was missing the point. thanks. but do you think this program will take advantage of the hardware mpeg2 encoder found on my capture card?

KiwiJock · Post by **KiwiJock** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:35 am

glad it worked, I capture to MPEG through my card, so would think you should be able to as well. Need to have reasonably good processor and RAM to collect and convert at same time. My old pc was Athlon 1.6 with 512 RAM and couldn't cope, got a new one with P4 3GHz and 512MB, worked fine but have just doubled RAM to make sure.

KiwiJock · Post by **KiwiJock** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:35 am

glad it worked, I capture to MPEG through my card, so would think you should be able to as well. Need to have reasonably good processor and RAM to collect and convert at same time. My old pc was Athlon 1.6 with 512 RAM and couldn't cope, got a new one with P4 3GHz and 512MB, worked fine but have just doubled RAM to make sure.

KiwiJock · Post by **KiwiJock** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:51 am

apologies for double post, guess I shouldn't use the back button and refresh!!