23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
5:16 a.m.
At 23:43 22/04/2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Has anyone tried to plug an old Home computer into an
Analog to Digital TV
converter such as the Canopus ADVC-100, and then use a mondern computer
with a Firewire port and video capture software as a monitor?
I use an ATI Radeon All In Wonder on the PC to do exactly this, for a BBC
micro. It's realtime video (I presume it's a hardware overlay) and despite
the actual tv software being prone to crashing occasionally, seems to work
quite well, and certainly saves on the desk space.
My wife's machine has an external USB2 connected tv capture box; whilst I
haven't tried a micro on that, showing TV is definitely more jumpy when
other things are happening on the PC, so I presume that is a software
display and thus more demanding on the hardware.
Rob