Further TV rips may wait

[emuler]

Here's where I got the 12MB per second thing.

Online JPEG for Adobe Premiere Pro

On Windows, Blackmagic's full resolution (1920 x 1080) professional quality compressed HD codec can capture JPEG AVI files in real time using Premiere Pro. Unlike HDV and DVCPRO HD which uses reduced resolution 1440 x 1080 video, Blackmagic's Online JPEG maintains the full resolution 1920 x 1080 resolution of HD video without the huge file size of uncompressed HD video. Blackmagic's Online JPEG is so efficient that full motion 1080i HD video can be recorded at only 12 MB per second vs. a massive 119 MB per second for uncompressed HD video.

Blackmagic's compressed files are so compact, that 1080 HD video can be captured to a single internal hard disk or easily transported on a portable Firewire drive! Online JPEG is compatible with Premiere Pro and After Effects® and can even be used by editors without Blackmagic capture cards making it one of the most versatile compressed codecs available.

Don't be too discouraged. Even downsampled to 480p, digital reception is much better than the analog cable TV many of the rips are taken from. If nothing else, at least you'll be able to replace the pathetic VHS rips that seem to be all that we can get for now.

[terry666]

Blackmagic's Online JPEG is software compression, so i would probably need a hardware upgrade to get it to work probably.

There's a good discussion about 480p capture over at Doom9. There seems to be some cards in Japan that might do the trick. Unfortunately, I don't read Japanese.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120785

I also found the "PYRO A /V Link", but I cannot confirm if it does 480p or 480i. It has component inputs, and connects to the PC via FireWire.
http://www.adstech.com/products/API-558 ... PI-558-EFS

[OrionPax]

btw devices that remove HDCP have been available for some time now.

[terry666]

I've taken my problems over to http://forum.videohelp.com/topic341287.html#1780588

[terry666]

Found a fairly cheap way to convert component video to VGA: http://www.startech.com/Product/ItemSpe ... V2WAY&c=CA

Now if I could just find a VGA video capture card with MPEG-2 conversion hardware...

[terry666]

Found a VGA / DVI recorder with MPEG2 compression, that makes AVI, ASF, MPEGs with a max resolution of 1600 x 1200. If someone would just advance me $3999.95, I'll go pick one up tomorrow.

https://ssl.epiphan.com/order/order_nv.php?pid=6

I also found the PhynxRGB - VGA/RGB capture card. Must contact the manufacturer for price, so it must be expensive.

http://www.ems-imaging.com/catalog/modu ... 1f958e69dd

[terry666]

It seems that video capture off satellite better than 480i is just not feasible for me at this time. Though with HDTV becoming more and more common, I'm sure it won't be long before something comes out (Hollywood be damned.) The Blackmagic Intensity card is my best bet, but without on-board MPEG-2 encoding, I'll need to upgrade my PC. (My new year's resolution is to go up to quad-core with 4GB ram.)

But my DVR is messed. The built-in hard drive is malfunctioning, and the timer recording only works 1/3 of the time. The only thing working is the DVD recording function. Pretty inconvenient, so I ordered a new capture card while I wait for new technology to arrive.

I figured for under $100, the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 was a good deal.
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=1423

Anyone have experience with it?

[emuler]

I have had disappointing results with TV tuner cards (there is too much digital noise inside a computer case for the highly sensitive TV tuners to get good reception, so the picture is often overlaid with noise artefacts). Capturing via s-video gives much better results, especially with the onboard hardware compression.

So if you don't have ATSC (whatever that is), I suggest you look for a card /device that doesn't have a TV tuner, i.e. a video capture device. Why waste money on tuners?

If you have a PCIe slot, there are several interesting items there too. The other choices are PCI or external (USB).

[terry666]

I don't plan on using the the tuner portion at this point. I just got it in case some consumer level ATSC modulator/streamer becomes available later. (Don't laugh, they have them for department stores.) I'm also curious to see if any terrestrial signals are available in my area.

Or, are you saying that the tuner will interfere with my S-video captures?

BTW, there's a capture card that just came out called the Pegasus PCI-Express - ($1000 suggested retail price). It captures HDMI, component and other, at a high resolution, and has a hardware encoder. Problem is, I can't find one for sale anywhere.

http://www.canopus.com/products/Pegasus/index.php
http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/news/ ... gasus.html

[emuler]

No, the tuner will not interfere in any way with capture from an s-video source. If you are prepared to pay for something you won't use, fine.

There is a how to buy link on the first page you pointed to.
http://www.canopus.com/howtobuy/dealers ... country=37
Maybe you could even visit one of them and see a live demo before you buy.