Capture and Video?

[600Burger]

I'm looking toward building a TiVo type system that can record TV digitally. I have two basic options, build a system soley for that purpose or expand my current gaming rig alittle to acommodate for it. I was wondering if I could run a capture card and a video card? The two I'm thinking about is my current Radeon 9800 and a Hauppauge 401.

Also, if anyone has any other info on this type of project it would be greatlly apreciated.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: 600Burger
I'm looking toward building a TiVo type system that can record TV digitally. I have two basic options, build a system soley for that purpose or expand my current gaming rig alittle to acommodate for it. I was wondering if I could run a capture card and a video card? The two I'm thinking about is my current Radeon 9800 and a Hauppauge 401.

Also, if anyone has any other info on this type of project it would be greatlly apreciated.

How could you not be able to run with both a video card and a video capture card? How would you watch the captured videos?

I strongly, strongly recommend the use of the search feature. This is a fairly common topic in this forum. AVSForum.com also has several forums dedicated to just this topic.

 

[600Burger]

Don't some capture cards have video out as well?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: 600Burger
Don't some capture cards have video out as well?

A handful of them (such as the Hauppauge PVR-350), but this is only for displaying the video feed, NOT acting as a replacement for a normal video card.

Once you start getting up into professional realm, things change a bit... then you have cards with fancy genlock capabilities, etc. (for linking with professional video production systems).

 

[GoatMonkey]

I have a Hauppauge PVR 500 and use Snapstream Beyond TV as the software to capture TV. The interface of Beyond TV is very similar to TIVO. You get a program guide downloaded in XML format. You can set it to record all instances of a show by name. It does not do all channels at once, but you can easily set it to record each channel. The PVR 500 includes 2 tuners, so you can record 2 channels at once.