On my mad quest to find affordable hardware to capture HD analog video, I think I finally found a second option (Happauge’s HD-PVR being the first). This one’s from Dvico:
http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/tvixm6500a.asp
It’s priced a little more, but it’s jam-packed with features not included with the Hauppauge product. According to the specs, it encodes not only in h.264 as the HD-PVR does but also in MPEG, Dvix, etc. Using one of these alternative encoding codecs, might it be possible to get it working with VMC?
Here’s another interesting product by K-World…
http://www.mtmalta.com/images/KWD-PE360A_LG.GIF
It’s a PCIe analog tuner that comes with component video inputs. The U.S. website says “480i/480p” in a footnote. But 480p is still improvement over 480i and 480p can be up-converted to 720p or 1080i?
By the way, has there been any work arounds to get HD-PVR working with VMC?
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