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MooseMan3000 · 09-13-2005, 10:39 AM

So I'm looking to get a video capture card, but I can't seem to find anything that will work. What I want is a card (preferrably PCI, though a USB2 would be acceptable) that can connect to RCA and S-video and display what it's capturing live. Most of the ones I see with RCA only record video, which won't help.

Basically, I want to use a monitor as a TV to save space (no, no TVs as monitors. Blah to that resolution). Is it possible?

docbungle · 09-13-2005, 02:45 PM

Almost any tuner should let you view as well as record.

?

I use the ATI Theater 550 Pro

A decent selection can be found here, at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...srchInDesc=ati

and here, also at Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ubmit=Property

If you have a tv tuner, but you can't view tv on your pc, then something is set up wrong. That defeats the entire purpose of having a tv tuner.

The cards that include connections for s-video AND RCA are a bit more expensive than the most basic tv tuners, but you can hook up the ol' PS2, TV, XBox, Cable/sattelite, Camcorder or whatever else you desire.

MooseMan3000 · 09-13-2005, 05:34 PM

Ahhhhhh that's my problem.

I was looking at "capture" cards. What I needed to be looking for were "tuner" cards. I knew there was something I was missing. Thanks, man!

cyrnel · 09-13-2005, 05:48 PM

Canopus. Their encoder rocks.

09-13-2005, 10:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
MooseMan3000 wouldn't mind being a ninja. Location: Maine, the Other White State.	Video Capture Cards So I'm looking to get a video capture card, but I can't seem to find anything that will work. What I want is a card (preferrably PCI, though a USB2 would be acceptable) that can connect to RCA and S-video and display what it's capturing live. Most of the ones I see with RCA only record video, which won't help. Basically, I want to use a monitor as a TV to save space (no, no TVs as monitors. Blah to that resolution). Is it possible?

09-13-2005, 02:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
docbungle It's all downhill from here Location: Denver	Almost any tuner should let you view as well as record. ? I use the ATI Theater 550 Pro A decent selection can be found here, at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...srchInDesc=ati and here, also at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ubmit=Property If you have a tv tuner, but you can't view tv on your pc, then something is set up wrong. That defeats the entire purpose of having a tv tuner. The cards that include connections for s-video AND RCA are a bit more expensive than the most basic tv tuners, but you can hook up the ol' PS2, TV, XBox, Cable/sattelite, Camcorder or whatever else you desire. __________________ Bad Luck City Last edited by docbungle; 09-13-2005 at 02:52 PM..

09-13-2005, 05:48 PM	#4 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Canopus. Their encoder rocks. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

09-13-2005, 05:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
MooseMan3000 wouldn't mind being a ninja. Location: Maine, the Other White State.	Ahhhhhh that's my problem. I was looking at "capture" cards. What I needed to be looking for were "tuner" cards. I knew there was something I was missing. Thanks, man!