Hi, I'm finally getting around to finalizing my PVR setup and my next part of the project is to pick the best analog capture option out of the hardware I already have available. I figured I'd try to capture similar material with each option and then review the results. However, I thought I'd throw a note out first to see if anybody has already done the work for me :-) . I've looked around in the archive, but I couldn't find answers to the types of questions I have.
My goal is to do analog captures of various programs to be archived. I noticed that everybody seems to be using mpeg2 cards these days for analog capture, but isn't that a big quality cut? especially for material that should really be run through an inverse telecine filter before encoding? If I'll be using a card without mpeg2 hardware compression, is there any card that really has a better Y/C filter than my good ol' JVC VCR? Also, since I'll be capping from a cable box for the time being, has anybody evaluated the Y/C filter on the motorola 6200 boxes? That has an S-Video out. The firewire output of the 6200 on analog stations seems to be pretty ugly (all kinds of block artifacts). I've just got a really big matrix of things to check out in the equipment I already own: Capture Cards: Mjpeg Hardware : G400-TV G400 + RR Iomega Buz No Hardware Compression saa7133 based card cx88 based card on hd-3000 Cable Video Source path RF in from cable box Composite from cable box S-Vid from cable box Composite from VCR S-Vid from VCR Thanks for any suggestions, Jean _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users