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Im getting a bit bogged down....

I want to be able to record TV and VHS tapes to my computer using my card:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1495&page=1


This allegedly has Svideo input, "VIVO" etc....and came with Video recording software of some description.

I have a VIVO breakout box. This has four ports.....Svid in, comp in, svid out, comp out. I also have a lead, with what appears to be a round sv plug at each end.

1) Is there any way to record off my TV or set top box, and if so, how

2) What do I need to get my VHS machine to link to the PC......I dont think it has a round Svid output, just usual and scart, as does the TV.

3) Do I need to get a TV card to record TV...


I'm increasingly needing to record onto the computer. Ive missed five or six absolutely pivotal TV shows in the last two or three weeks, and I need to be in a position to make them into avi's etc, also, I have a stack of music shows and stuff I want to get off the dusty VHS tapes taking loads of room up, and whang them on the DVD discs after cropping up and stuff for adverts and whatever.

Ive had a look round some sites, but cant find a good explanation that seems to match what gear I have or what I want to do.....or how to actually do it when you have it.

Ta

Sirius.
 
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Right long ago I had a Radeon 64ddr & it had VIVO on it as well & I recorded TV/video by getting one of those scart plugs that has a yellow composite input & left/right audio jacks & s-video on the back, the most important thing is to buy the scart that has a switch on it to allow you to change between input & output.
You then put the scart in the back of your TV/Video (btw not all TV/videos scart outputs do both in/out, normally if you have 2 or more scarts on your TV/video only 1 will support out) & set the scart plug to output, now you link the yellow lead to the input on your vid card (composite in, allthough from that pic of your vid card I cant see the VIVO connections so if it has a s-video in use that as its better quality) & the audio leads to your sound card line in.
All you need now is software to show the source on your PC to allow you to capture it, there was an ATI one that came with my card but it wasnt much cop as it only had a few bit rate options so I used a free capture program called VirtualDub.
If you open it & goto file/capture avi it should detect your capture driver & allow you to see the tv on your PC, with mine the quality wasnt really great (due to the composite connection) but it was ok.
Once you set it up it's trial & error learning the optimum settings to use & how to use the program to do what you want but it's not that hard to learn really.

This is what I mean by the connector you need =
http://www.gameessentials.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=122
& as you have s-video (looks like a mini din plug) use that as the qualitys a lot better than composite.
 


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