What next after relying on ati all-in-wonder cards?

ElectroBlaster · 27 Aug 2008 at 22:26

Where do I go now? I want to upgrade to modern hardware and still record mpeg2 from a sky+ box but there are no x32/x64 vista drivers for all-in-wonder cards.

I need an hardware based mpeg2 capable tv card, pci or pci-e that has decent software that wont crash or split files up.
Any suggestions?

Energize · 28 Aug 2008 at 07:14

http://www.videohelp.com/capturecar...y=Rating&hits=200&Submit=Search&Search=Search

That is a good search tool.

I wouldn't bother recording that using your pc tbh, just get a dvd recorder, much less hassle.

ElectroBlaster · 28 Aug 2008 at 11:27

Cheers for the link

Ive thought about a dvd recorder but too many factors outweigh me getting one. Having to keep buying dvd-r's, hoping the dvd-r's are good and dont fail, having to rely on the recorder doing its job and removing adverts. A friend of mine has a panasonic recorder and yes its good but it will fail to record sometimes and will cut into the programme instead of ignoring adverts.

Having the ati cards is a god send for me, I have total control over whats recorded and so far ive never missed a single programme. The only annoying thing is I cant set it to record on its own.

Kyo Daikun · 28 Aug 2008 at 11:29

Buy a dvd recorder with a hard disk in it, then you dont have to buy discs, removing the adverts is something else, I normally go through and remove them myself.

errata · 28 Aug 2008 at 12:16

Leadtek have hybrid tv tuners with hardware mpeg 2 encoding at a premium over their ordinary hybrid cards and theres a few analogue capture cards as well.

However mpeg 2 is now a doddle for modern cpu's so would reccomend the ordinary version or a graphics card with tv in (now somewaht rare)

Wayne~ · 28 Aug 2008 at 12:41

Couldn't you just use your old PC as a media center?

Energize · 28 Aug 2008 at 19:34

ElectroBlaster said:
Cheers for the link

Ive thought about a dvd recorder but too many factors outweigh me getting one. Having to keep buying dvd-r's, hoping the dvd-r's are good and dont fail, having to rely on the recorder doing its job and removing adverts. A friend of mine has a panasonic recorder and yes its good but it will fail to record sometimes and will cut into the programme instead of ignoring adverts.

Having the ati cards is a god send for me, I have total control over whats recorded and so far ive never missed a single programme. The only annoying thing is I cant set it to record on its own.

If you use dvd-rw's you don't need to keep buying disks, and you can remove the adverts in a few seconds yourself using something like avidemux.