At 10:30 PM 1/7/2006, Winterlight typed:
But in my mind there is still a long way to go with these cards and
high end video capture products in general.
I guess you haven't looked at high end cards lately as my high def
capture card [MyHD MDP-120] requires very little cpu usage since it
does all the processing but it captures in streaming mpeg so one has
to convert it to mpeg2 with a freeware app hdtvtompeg2.exe and the
null packets should be stripped with another freeware app
NullPacketStripper & these would take a while on a slow machine. The
Fusion3 or 5 also take very little CPU while capturing but it's the
post processing that takes up the CPU, memory, & time.
The bottom line is that he is just trying to make a simple
instructional video, not a high def movie. Even VCD quality would be
Ok for that purpose.
As you say tho if that's all the video they want to process both my
X800 & my last 2 GeForce cards could capture video well enough via
S-Video to do this. Nero Vision Express 3 or 4 would do a nice job
with capturing, light editing & burning it to a disk.
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Ashland, OH, USA 44805
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