First post, by Zup
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I'm trying to use an not-so-old computer to capture video from VHS, but I've ran into some strange problems.
My system specs:
- Motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VT600 (KT600 based, with Realtek audio codec, 1xAGP 8x and 5xPCI).
- Athlon XP2400
- 1 Gb DDR 400
- ATI Radeon 9200SE 128Mb PCI
- Best Buy EasyTV (seems it is a Flyvideo 98 clone)
The software I'm trying to use is:
- Windows 2000 Pro.
- Virtualdub 1.9.10.
- Lagarith and Huffman video codecs (later, I'll convert the video using ffmpeg... so no need to install xvid, divx or another mp4 video codec).
- BTwincap drivers.
Some of my troubles:
- At first, I tried to use it with a Geforce 5200 and TV card in slot PCI 3, but system didn't boot. Then I tried with a Geforce 4200Ti, it booted and installed Windows and all the drivers, but the video capture driver showed a warning. When I moved the board from slot, it didn't boot at all.
- Then, I put the TV card into slot #1 (it seemed like a INT problem to me), and the ATI 9200 into slot #2. It worked but still showed the warning.
- Moving the TV card back and forth, it showed that it booted only when placed in PCI slot #1 or #3 (I don't know why). After looking into the BIOS, it showed that ALL the PCI slots shared INT with USB devices (I don't know why). Disabling USB devices removed the driver warning.
Any suggestion to get working both USB devices and TV card?
Also, I have a Roxio USB and a EasyCap clone video capture device. I'm trying to use the BT879 card because I thoughtit will have better quality, but I'm not really sure. Does any of the other devices have better quality than the PCI card?
What resolution settings would be fine for a VHS video using a SVHS input? I'm pretty sure that 720x576x25fps and 44.1 stereo capture would be a waste, but I don't know what settings would be good quality without wasting resources.
Keeping in mind that video source will be a 6 head PAL VHS video... do you recommend to change the sound card? The codec is a Realtek ALC655, the alternatives are a Sound Blaster PCI128 or a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1.
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