[vox-tech] Looking for recommendation: video capture/TV tuner

[tech_dev(Alex Mandel)]

The 2nd & 3rd are the same item, ASIN(Amazon #) is the same.
1st one is USB other one is PCI.

Looking at the manufacturer website, the only other thing I can find out 
is that the USB device min. PC specs are higher 733MHZ over 500MHZ pci.
Also the USB transfer max is 12M/sec on usb 2.0, but I don't have 
comparison numbers.
Other than that ZDNET gave the PCI version a 7.7

Alex

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Cool, thanks guys.  One last question - 
> 
> What exactly is the difference between
> 
> Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB 2.0 (Model 941)
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AL8XX/ref=pd_sbs_e_2/103-2472259-5670207?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
> 
> Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 Personal Video Recorder (990)
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008OOWC/qid=1108837718/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2472259-5670207?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
> 
> Hauppauge WINTV-PVR 350 PCI
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008OOWC/qid=1108837718/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2472259-5670207?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
> 
> 
> The spec sheets on the last two look the same to me.  They both appear to be
> PCI TV/video capture cards.   Does anyone know what the difference is
> between them?  It's so hard to wade through the marketing...
> 
> All things being equal, I'd rather get something USB (the first item), if
> the USB 2.0 product is equivalent or nearly equivalent to the PCI model...
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
> 
> 
> On Sat 19 Feb 05,  8:53 AM, Mark Street <mark at oswizards.com> said:
> 
>>I have a WinTV PVR 250 in my myth tv box that does a wonderful job.  It has 
>>both S-video and Composite inputs.  The encoder processor is on the board so 
>>the 3Ghz P4 doesn't have to sweat.
>>
>>The .nuv (Nuppel Video) files that are generated can be converted with 
>>nuvexport to a variety of formats.
>>
>>From the nuvexport man page.
>>EXPORT TYPES
>>     Supported export formats:
>>
>>     XviD - export to XviD AVI file
>>     SVCD - export to SVCD compliaint mpeg files, optionally burn SVCD disc
>>     VCD - export to VCD compliant mpeg files, optionally burn VCD disc
>>     DVCD - export to VCD format, but using 48kHz audio, useful for DVDs
>>     DVD - export to DVD
>>     WMV - Windows Media Player files, exports ASF files with the mpeg4 codec
>>     MP3 - Export audio track to a Mp3
>>     MPEG2->MPEG2 cut - cuts commercials tagged by mythtv and gives
>>         you a mpeg file. This only works for Mpeg-2 recorded media,
>>         like that recorded with a PVR-x25 card
>>     nuv and sql - dumps mysql database so it can be moved to another
>>         mythtv backend
>>
>>I have experimented with my DV cam dragging off DV and converting to SVCD and 
>>VCD.  Works pretty good.  I haven't tried VCR.  Kino (free) is a good editing 
>>tool as well as MainActor (commercial), there is always Adobe Premiere.
>>
>>Have plenty of disk, fast disk subsystem/filesystem I/O and plenty of CPU and 
>>RAM.
>>
>>On Friday 18 February 2005 12:53, Dmitriy wrote:
>>
>>>For tv capture one of the best is WinTV PVR-250/350 (later having tv-out)
>>>They have tuners and svideo inputs I believe.
>>>They also output mpeg2, so you don't need to use CPU to compress video.
>>>What I am not sure about if you can put mpeg2 it produces on dvd without
>>>transcoding (IMO that would cause significant quality dip).
>>>Both are supported relatively well under linux and with MythTV.
>>>
>>>Might be overkill for your needs.
>>
>>
>>>On Friday 18 February 2005 06:17, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I want to convert all my VCR to DVD.  I also want to be able to capture
>>>>TV/Cable stuff to file format.
>>>>What TV/video capture cards make people drool these days?
>>
>>-- 
>>Mark Street, RHCE
>>http://www.oswizards.com
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