Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Mike
What I am trying to 'get my head around' is the best way to get it into my PC  |
Basically the video player will output an analogue signal. The output will either be via an s-video cable or a composite video cable (and sound output as well, either via s-video or by left and right 'phono' leads).
This output needs to connect to some kind of 'box' either in the pc or attached to the pc, that will allow you plug either s-video leads or composite video leads into it and will then digitise the analogue video input (and compress it) and in turn output it as data to the PC.
You can get external boxes that do this (like the dazzle boxes) or you can use an internal PC card to do it. Internal PC cards can either be dedicated to this task or it can be combined with other functions (like the functions of the PC's graphics card).
As Paul points out how fast the computer can write data to it's harddrive can be an important factor. Because the analogue video is comming in live, the PC has to write out the digitised and compressed data at least as fast as the signal comming in, otherwise it simply 'drops' some of the frames comming in leading to less than perfect video as a result.
I hope this is more the kind of 'advise' you were looking for? If not keep asking and I am sure we will get there in the end
