Streaming/capturing digital video to PC!!

[Mach234 (or similar).]

Okay, just wrote long post, but disappeared when tried to submit , so will try again..

..In short..

Want to capture Virgin V+ cable output (SD/HD, MPEG2, HDMI/SCART/Component) to my PC so can burn to DVD (and ideally edit). Am getting Blu-ray player but recorders don't seem to have hit the market yet, so trying to avoid dedicated DVD recorder/player.

So am looking for card that can capture digital video losslesly (good solid card), certainly SD, HD would be good (HDMI connector?) but seeming hard to track down, either analogue capture and digitisation or streaming to output device. Also good if doesn't break bank (ideally equiv cheap DVD recorder..). Does anyone out there know what to look for/any recommended cards?

My current motherboard has AGP graphics slot and standard PCI, but am looking to build new mean machine later this year with PCI Express..

Any help/info would be massively appreciated..

Cheers,

Doc PC

 

[Kearney_1988]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17972739

That thread is about a small device that i use to capture content from hd sources. Hope its some help to you.

 

[Mach234 (or similar).]

Cheers for that, may be an option, but are there not cards you can buy to plug into your PC that can capture digital video directly/losslesly (without converting Digi-Ana-Digi)?

 

[errata]

The whole point of digital rights managment is to stop people having any opportunity to copy high quality digital data preferabbly totally or at least forcing them to go via several conversion stages degraing the image.

You can do some of what you want but theres lots of if and buts partiularly with digital sources and the various means of protecting some of those sources, some of which are only availabel but not applied yet.

The suggested device seems to get round a lot of this.

 

[Mach234 (or similar).]

k, cheers dude..