From: Jeddy Lin (jeddylin_at_uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 13:33:32 EDT
This will depend on the quality you require -- a WinTV USB, for example,
should capture analog video at 320x240 at 15 to 24 fps without a problem,
but anything above that is probably in the realm of luck -- that's hardly
good quality video though. You'd be out around $80, but the software is
free - Virtualdub is excellent.
If you're serious on capturing video, the best way to go is probably a
PCMCIA (Cardbus?) firewire card and going the all-digital route, if your
camcorder supports it. These cards regularly come up at compgeeks, and from
a quick look seems to be available on ebay for around $40. The hitch here is
the software, I'm not too familiar with digital video capture... if the
firewire connection is through a WDM or VFW driver, then Virtualdub should
work, just as with analog video.
Just suggestions. =)
Regards, Jeddy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Haskins" <bhaskins_at_triton.net>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: 390x Video capture
> I recently acquired a super nice 390X PIII 500MHZ 15 inch screen TP
> and I'm wondering if anyone on the list has some ideas on how to do
> video capture on it.
> Believe it on not, I had satisfactory results feeding the S-Video output
> from my JVC digital camcorder into a 760ED!
> Now that is my only reason for not selling the 760 as this function is
> quite important to me.
> I think that USB would probably be to slow and I think that the
> S-Video port on the 390X is output only, right?.
> Does anyone have any thoughts on PCMCIA or parallel port units?
> Thanks, Bert
>
>
>
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