Best video capture card to record gaming?

leet6thgrader

leet6thgrader

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Hi,

I'm trying to make a BF2 frag video but FRAPS lags too much. I thought of getting a video capture card and putting the s-video out of my gfx card into the s-video in of the video capture card. After some research I think it will probably work so I'm looking for a PCI video capture card.

There's only one thing - I need it to have an encoder on it, and I also need it to be the cheapest available. Can anyone help me find one?
 
That won't work right from the start. To capture video from a game running you would need to capture from an external source that the display was going out to. You can't configure the display into a capture card installed on the same system or any other. You have to tap the external display or run another software like Game Cam to grab video clips from a game.
 
The S-Video out would go into another display where you had the option there for output to another sourrce like vhs. Most displays however have only input only. The output from the video card to a card installed wouldn't allow for this since it's not a monitor, tv, or other display type of device for extending or cloning a desktop.
 
Okay so we've established that the guy I linked to did SOMETHING with a video capture card and S-video cable, but it required another peice of equipment. Scratch that idea.

My MiniDV cam doesn't have an S-Video IN, only S-Video OUT. Is it possible for me to capture what's going on on my desktop / game with a IEEE 1394 cable (which plugs into the front of it and then goes into a firewire port)? Because I was reading the details on a program called iuVCR and it said it had "IEEE 1394 support", and I have transferred a video from the MiniDV to Windows Movie Maker, edited it, and transferred it back so I thought it might be possible.

Thanks for your help, btw.
 
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The problem there is that there are a good number of video recorder type programs like PVRs out but not many for capturing clips while you are actually inside a game itself. FRAPS and Game Cam are a pair of the few exceptions where the captures are right there on the hard drive in a program's own sub folder unless an option is available to save elsewhere. Pointing a camcorder directly at your monitor seems to be the external method available unless you can tap the vga output to a second display for this.

A good number of vhs as well as other home entertainment devices like you tv will have S-Video in where you would place a vga signal converter inline. Splitting the output from a converter into a recording device would allow for display and recording possibilities at that point. If you were able to clone a desktop to a vcr then your problem is solved as far as any time limits with the 8hr vhs tapes available.
 
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