Hello! Sorry to be sending this e-mail to you but I think you can answer some questions to me.
It's quite a while I don't write anything on the mjpeg list and I remember there was a person that would really make good coments about the Canopus capture devices. After years, now I'm working and I plan to buy one. I FINALLY found a place here that sells these two: ADVC-100 and ADVC-300. I remember something about ADVC-50 and ADVC-100 only on this list. Well, now my tragic story and why I'm asking this. I've bought an ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 one year ago. Box, all very fine up to that. I did it because I read so many good things and support for older ATI cards. Today I'm very disappointed, as it still doesn't capture in linux. But I had my reasons to buy it: it supports pal-m (Brazil) and is an accelerated card - I didn't have one. Acceleration works in linux, but still somewhat buggy. But no capture in the whole one year I have it. Fine, I can use windows to capture. But then, when I try any tape that is not very good, the result shows scrambled images, really unusable. So I have spent quite some money last year, have plenty of tapes of bad quality and no single video made out of them. Now comes the first point. The Canopus products don't support pal-m. I would have to use a converter between the video and the device. Do I lose something with that conversion? I've found converters that claim "240 lines of resolution" - is that "normal"? http://www.transcortec.com.br/vp10000.htm is such an example. Page in portuguese, but I think the technical info is ok to understand. But probably whoever understands about this doesn't even need to see that. And now the second. If the above is ok, as I want to capture tapes of a lot of dubious quality, I want to know if I really have to go for ADVC-300. I just ask because the ADVC-100 is much cheaper. But I don't know if it will be able to do the job. I've read things about both and I wanted to hear an opinion of someone that uses the device. I'm almost another convert, just by reading what other people said about them on the internet. :-) Thank you in advance for your time! Roberto. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
