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capturing video with excellent quality
HI, I am asked to record a show on cnn but not sure how the quality would be if I record the show on vcr first and then transfering it to my computer. Would it be better if I have a tv tuner in my computer..capture it and then save it as mpeg etc? And I'm not sure what woud be the best/not too expensive products to setup the computer so I can accomplish good quality capture video off a tv program.
Thanks,
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The quality will depend on the tuner used, whether it is a vcr or a pc card. Many vcrs have decent tuners, but you will lose some quality capturing to the pc. A high quality pc tuner like the Hauppauge PVR150 will yield a good capture and perform mpeg compression on-the-fly, so I recommend it. I have an older PVR250 card that I really like.
>I can't tell if it has one...how do i find out?
Run Everest and see what it tells you: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
Run Everest and see what it tells you: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
You can tell whether you have a TV tuner card installed by looking at the back of your computer and seeing if there's a connector for a coaxial cable.
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VCR tape is lesser quality than MPEG, but if you have to compress the MPEG to get it onto a DVD to equal what you would have recorded on the VCR to begin with, then, NO, they are about the same quality. We have some people who do this every day. The long and the short is that video capture to MPEG then burn to DVD is a BIG HASSLE -- about 2-3 hours of work, and the quality is only marginally better than VCR. Then when you factor in that the sound can be off-sync from the video (which never happens with VCR), the bottom line is, if you want a *QUICK* solution, just record it with VCR. If you want to fiddle and fuss with it, do video capture to MPEG and then get set for the great hassle of trying to get it onto a DVD with satisfactory results. Good luck!
The matter here is finally transferring the TV show digitally on the computer, scrathcyboy.
The only method is to direct capture it digitally, whatever intermediary step is a waste of time and loss of what you want.
By the way scrathcyboy, there are also hardware encoders embeded on some capture or TV tuner cards. It's evident, what you done is made without such cards, no offence, i did the same in the past.
The only method is to direct capture it digitally, whatever intermediary step is a waste of time and loss of what you want.
By the way scrathcyboy, there are also hardware encoders embeded on some capture or TV tuner cards. It's evident, what you done is made without such cards, no offence, i did the same in the past.
The best thing would be to capture in MPEG from an MPEG tv-source like a digital satellite program.
I'd look for a WinTV PVR card with satellite tuner and use that. I'd rip the stream under Linux with transcode and thus I'd not have any loss of quality.
I think with that card "PVR" stands for Personal Video Recorder so vdr capabilities are included (for windows users) vomplete with all the software. And that works with directly ripping the mpeg stream, too.
But if you just want to watch the video - use that vcr you have and don't care much. It will work. The quality won't be the best as I assume that "Never Twice the Same Color" will live up to it's name, but what ? You don't want to win an art contest with the quality of the video, do you ?
I'd look for a WinTV PVR card with satellite tuner and use that. I'd rip the stream under Linux with transcode and thus I'd not have any loss of quality.
I think with that card "PVR" stands for Personal Video Recorder so vdr capabilities are included (for windows users) vomplete with all the software. And that works with directly ripping the mpeg stream, too.
But if you just want to watch the video - use that vcr you have and don't care much. It will work. The quality won't be the best as I assume that "Never Twice the Same Color" will live up to it's name, but what ? You don't want to win an art contest with the quality of the video, do you ?
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Thank you guys....it's very important to keep the highest quality when I capture the show..for this I think I'm going to buy the tv tuner card as suggested by some of you guys. Thanks you so much.
Cheers,
Johan,
Cheers,
Johan,
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