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  • C code frog 0

    So I have S-Video on my laptop and I have S-Video on my TV. Is there any way I can use the S-Video to capture stuff off the TV onto the laptop? Or What can I do with S-Video? I'm just kind of curious to see/hear what people have done (if anything) with S-Video... - Rex

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    code frog 0
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    So my google efforts turned this up: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1426[^] Is there anything else/better out there that anyone is aware of? That's all I could find.

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      So my google efforts turned this up: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1426[^] Is there anything else/better out there that anyone is aware of? That's all I could find.

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      Marc Clifton
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      That's a tuner card, not a capture card. Marc

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      • C code frog 0

        Okay, my VCR has S-Video and my VCR is my cable receiver. Does that get me anything? Really wanting to capture one of the replays of Oklahoma Vs. Boise State for my brother in law currently in boot camp in Texas who missed it. Going down in a week to see him.

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        Ed Poore
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        Mine has the same, it's for output only, not input.


        I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.

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        • C code frog 0

          Okay, my VCR has S-Video and my VCR is my cable receiver. Does that get me anything? Really wanting to capture one of the replays of Oklahoma Vs. Boise State for my brother in law currently in boot camp in Texas who missed it. Going down in a week to see him.

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          David Stone
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          You could always. Ahem. Download it.

          Once you wanted revolution
          Now you're the institution
          How's it feel to be the man?

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            That's a tuner card, not a capture card. Marc

            Thyme In The Country

            People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
            There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
            People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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            David Stone
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            Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.

            And I get on my knees and pray
            We don't get fooled again

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            • D David Stone

              Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.

              And I get on my knees and pray
              We don't get fooled again

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              code frog 0
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              Examples of the software would be???

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                You could always. Ahem. Download it.

                Once you wanted revolution
                Now you're the institution
                How's it feel to be the man?

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                code frog 0
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                Let's call it a "learning" exercise as well. :cool:

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                • D David Stone

                  Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.

                  And I get on my knees and pray
                  We don't get fooled again

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  David Stone wrote:

                  Tuner cards are capture cards.

                  Well, if it's just a tuner card, advertising that's a capture card is misleading IMO because it doesn't have a video input jack. It just grabs the signal off the air. So it isn't a true video capture card IMO. If code-frog has the game on tape and he wants to capture it, he'll need a true capture card. If the game hasn't aired yet, then yeah, a tuner card with capture ability will work. :) Marc

                  Thyme In The Country

                  People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                  There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                  People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                  • C code frog 0

                    Examples of the software would be???

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                    Tom Archer
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                    The software comes with the card. For example, I use an All in Wonder card (and software) that turn one of my PCs into a DVR so that I can tape shows and then rip them to my Zune.

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                      David Stone wrote:

                      Tuner cards are capture cards.

                      Well, if it's just a tuner card, advertising that's a capture card is misleading IMO because it doesn't have a video input jack. It just grabs the signal off the air. So it isn't a true video capture card IMO. If code-frog has the game on tape and he wants to capture it, he'll need a true capture card. If the game hasn't aired yet, then yeah, a tuner card with capture ability will work. :) Marc

                      Thyme In The Country

                      People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                      There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                      People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                      David Stone
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                      No. Most TV tuner cards (like the Hauppage WinTV-PVR-250[^]) have input jacks for RCA, Coax, and S-Video. I've never seen anybody differentiate between tuner cards and capture cards.


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                      • C code frog 0

                        Let's call it a "learning" exercise as well. :cool:

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                        David Stone
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                        Using BitTorrent (or my preferred method, Usenet downloads) is good for learning as well. ;) If you really want to get video off the wire, I'd recommend looking at this site[^]. They've got reviews on tuner cards, software, etc. You can actually build a pretty nice PVR for really cheap. You're no stranger to linux, so you could easily put together a MythTV system and have a free Tivo replacement. :)

                        And I get on my knees and pray
                        We don't get fooled again

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                        • D David Stone

                          Tuner cards are capture cards. You just have to have software to save the input stream. My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.

                          And I get on my knees and pray
                          We don't get fooled again

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                          Dan Neely
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                          David Stone wrote:

                          My personal recommendation for tuner cards is anything by Hauppage.

                          My recommendation would be a hardware card (hardware mpeg encoder instead of using your CPU) by anyone but hauppage. I've had both a PCI and a USB tuner from them that suffered from a continual stream of driver self destructs that could only be solved by multiple reboots and full un/reinstall procedures. THe USB one also failed to be detected properly by windows for automatic driver install. Hauppage insisted that the problem was with my hardware despite the identical problem occuring on all three systems I had access to test on. :mad:X| :omg::wtf: I replaced it with an ATI PCIe1x card which installed beatifully, came with better software and has been trouble free ever since.

                          -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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