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> >Not on that Hauppauge card. it inputs video/audio only. You have to
> >have a separate card to output video, usually on your graphics card.
>
> Darn
>
> That's what I was afraid of. I just looked at the stock video card in
> my Dell 4100 and it doesn't have any video OUTS at all.
>
> Arent there any Hauppauge PVR cards that also have video outputs as
> well?
>
> Or....any PVR cards period that have video outs?
>
> Or is one expected to use a SEPARATE video card with video outputs in
> conjunction with these PVR cards?
>
> As you can tell....Im a bit confused on all this. <G>
Hi,
There are some analog video hardware encoder + hardware decoder PCI
cards available and I think that's what you are looking for:
1) Navis-Pro (www.pentamedia.com)
2) Hauppauge PVR-350 (not the PVR-250)
3) MPG150i/160 (www.yuan.com.tw)
I believe all these capture cards use the same encoder/decoder chip
(ivac15/16)
so basically they would have the same features and similar encoding
quality. The different is the software.
I have the Navis-Pro so I will comment more on this particular card.
Basically you can capture VCD/SVCD/MPEG1/MPEG2 (full D1 or half D1 -
NTSC or PAL) in real time. Some of the cards above also have built on
TV tunner so you can watch/capture TV/Cable boardcast. You can either
output the capture video (or play a pre-captured video files from
hardrive/cd/dvd) to PC monitor OR to an external video monitor (TV).
You can pause the video and resume watching it while without missing
any part of the source video (time-slip feature). I don't know for
sure the number of input/output options for card #2 & #3. But on the
Navis-Pro there are: both RCA & S-video + audio (L/R) inputs and both
RCA & S-video + audio (L/R) output. So you don't need video output
connector from your primary video card.
You don't need a high-end (fast) PC to use one of the above card. My
CPU is an Athlon 2400XP and the processor usage while capturing is
under 10% (output to external video monitor/TV - via buit-in hardware
decoder) but around 40% if view on PC monitor (via software decoder).
By the way, one of my friend PC is a Duron 800Mhz and his PCU usage is
not much differ than mine.