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Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC

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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> writes:

First off, sorry for getting back to this so late.

> Harry Putnam wrote:

[...]

Paul responded:

> This is a pretty hard question to answer.

> Hauppauge makes this like visiting a restaurant, where you have to
> do a year of research first, before you can even enter the place
> and have a meal. It's really pretty horrible.

[...] snipped lots of excellent detail

Thank you sir, for the full and well detailed report

I'll be trying to absorb some of the stuff in the links you provided.
I suspect I will be back for more later.

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

[...]

> There are some pretty cheap used ones about, eg.
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/322859162914
>
> You'll have to go hunting for drivers though. The last capture card I
> bought actually cost me 20c at a swap-meet.

Thanks for the great input.

To both of you:

I didn't do much of a job in OP explaining things.

I kind of assumed it would work something like this:
My directv connections to tv work thru the boxes dtv supply.

I hardly ever actually watch tv, so paid no attention when dtv hooked
things up, but looking at the tv my wife watches I see:

a coax coming from wall (which must go to disk thing on the roof)
Then from the dtv box runs a hdmi connector to tv

So anyway, I had assumed dtv would give us another box and whatever
way it is connected from there to tv would connect to whatever I get
for my mobo... or maybe its all usb now.

Hence the notion that I would need a tv tuner... that is, a tiny tv
with no screen... and the computer monitor would do the rest.

Not considering for a moment how I would record it or edit it.

I'm probably clear off the mark here, but if not, is that roughly how
this would be done?

Harry wrote:

>> I have an oldish (version-10) of Vegas and the current Premier Pro
>> supplied with the Adobe Cloud suite of tools.
 
>> Is `Magnum H.264' a format that will be readily edited by those NLE's?
 
>> But also it was not clear if more equipment (a tuner?) is required. It
>> does sound like it in the writeup under `overview' link.

C.N. Kev wrote:
> If your device has composite or S-Video outputs, you shouldn't need a
> "tuner". Use the S-Video output, if available, it will be the best
> quality (I assume there's no HDMI output on the "Directv").

Actually there is.  In fact that is how the Directv boxes they supply,
feed the tv.

>> Can anyone suggest equipment for this task that would require only a
>> `Directv' source box. (I mean beyond the PC with whatever add ons
>> suggested)

> Any cheap capture card, along with the audio input on your sound card,
> then just connect them together with your "Directv" thing. If you're
> recording from an analogue source, you should be able to choose the
> video format yourself with any decent internal capture card.

I once had a pretty expensive canopus capture card but parted ways
with that long ago. I kind of thought since the tv shows will be
playing on my computer, I'd be able to record them with a screen
recorder, is that not likely to be doable?

> This might be woth a look on the software side:
> http://www.argus-tv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Comskip

Hey, that looks like it might take a lot of the boring work out of
getting past those pesky commercials

To both of you again:

Where I do my computing is quite removed from any tv's in the house,
so I thought getting something that would render my mobo or PC into a
basic tv would be in order.

So, I though Dtv box > hdmi cable > whatever-device-I-need-here and
then I can watch the actual tv shows on my PC or record them and edit
all the junk out. I had assumed I would be able to record them with
`what you see/hear' screen recorder and depending on which one... I
could record to avi which would be editable in either of my NLE
programs.

So, please let me know if I'm really missing the boat and likely to be
getting in over my head here.

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TV tuner/capture card for PC Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2017-11-08 17:50 -0500
  Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2017-11-09 05:14 -0500
    Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-12 09:08 -0500
      Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-02-12 10:47 -0500
      Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2018-02-12 22:01 +0000
  Re: TV tuner/capture card for PC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-11-10 22:17 +0000

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