Capture equipment?

[vlame]

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/easycap-us ... port-26319

ive got one of these and it works pretty great for turning my laptop into an alternate TV. i haven't really used it for capturing though even though that would be its main purpose.

pretty affordable and can handle ether composite or S-video.

This is what I have. It was cheaper on eBay. I used it to cap VHS and play ps2 and wii.

[fastbilly1]

When you want to upgrade to high def, most people I know use the Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR. But I am curious about the Black Magic Intensity line myself.

[avrame]

When you want to upgrade to high def, most people I know use the Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR. But I am curious about the Black Magic Intensity line myself.

Ditto, I'm curious if their Shuttle will work with my i7 + USB 3.0 laptop. If it does, that's portable gaming gold.

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/

[vlame]

When you want to upgrade to high def, most people I know use the Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR. But I am curious about the Black Magic Intensity line myself.

the one linked to is decent enough for machines that can't/won't do anything better than RCA.

[Redifer]

You'd need to make sure your laptop hard drive has something that can write at the speeds the Intensity requires. Remember, when the hard drive has to write the video/audio and at the same time be responsible for the OS and whatever programs you have running, you can get dropped frames or an aborted capture.

You won't be able to capture any game systems below the Dreamcast with the Intesity.

Here is the first video I captured with my Intensity Pro (Burnout Paradise). Switch it to 720p. Captured and edited at 60fps, but Youtube can only do 30fps or less.

[fastbilly1]

Redifer, so you are saying we need a dedicated harddrive to capture to and we wont have most of the problems mentioned online? If so I will be buying. Itll save my neck on a PC job I might get in the future.

[vlame]

Redifer, so you are saying we need a dedicated harddrive to capture to and we wont have most of the problems mentioned online? If so I will be buying. Itll save my neck on a PC job I might get in the future.

makes sense, to have a fast hd just for capturing.

[Redifer]

Having a dedicated hard drive for capturing definitely helps eliminate dropped frames (which is usually responsible for the out of sync audio as well). But when that hard drive is external, you need to be careful that they are not sharing the same USB bandwidth, etc.

[diesel_dan]

Anyone have any experience with the Hauppauge HD PVR?

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

Looks like a really nice piece of equipment.

[KingDavid73]

I have like 10 consoles hooked up right now through my computer.

I use EasyCap.


I have a RCA splitter (1 female, 2 male) for video.


I plug the audio into a RCA splitter (2 femail, 1 male headphone). I plug it into my computer so I can listen, then just select 'line in' for the audio recording.


I then use the program Video Capture Master to capture everything.
http://www.videocapturemaster.com/

You'll have to mess around with compression methods.

For recording 2600, etc, you'll have to plug it into something like a VCR with a coax port, then plug the VCR video out into the EasyCap.


The whole setup was pretty cheap. Just look on ebay for stuff. The splitters are pretty cheap.