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Screen Grabs from Digibox

  • 09-01-2006 10:27am
    #1
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭


    Quick one - I have often seen screen grabs on here from digibox menus, TV shows, etc. Whats the quickest / easiest / cheapest way to take a quality still picture from a digibox to a PC?


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  • #2
    watty
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    A TV or video capture card in Still Picture mode, used via composite video rather than RF. If you have an RGB (SCART) to S-Video convertor this is even better. (a SCART connector with a S-Video socket won't work as most Digibox es only output RGB or Composite on the SCART connector).


    Grab at 768 x 576 resolution in RGB.

    Actual moving video capture is usally much poorer quality and some cards can't even do it at full resolution.

    Forget USB based solutions. They are only good for web cam or low to medium quality video capture.

    A Digital Camcorder used as Firewire Bridge (Camera external Anaog In to Firewire/ILink/IEEE1394 out) does work better for moving video than most TV tuner/capture cards, but since DV video file transfer is really a form of MJPEG, it will have some artifacts compared with Still Frame capture on a PCI card. However if it is all you have it does work.


  • #3
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭Genghis


    Thanks Watty. From a quick look around, it seems I might be spending €100 or so for that stuff ... right?

    I don't need it that much.

    Might need to reconsider ....


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    A Hauppauge WinTV PCI card was I thought a bit cheaper than that!

    I don't think the Pinnacle are as good.

    ATI all in one wonders are sometimes problematic. A graphics card with TV out built in is OK, but I wouldn't ever buy one (again) with TV/Video in built in.

    A lot of the better TV PCI cards come with IR remote and FM radio too. Some you can add SW to remote control the PC generally.

    With a 1GHz or faster PC and a 99 Euro 200G hard disk ( NTFS) and Win2K or XP free SW will turn the basic PCI TV card into a PVR (Use MJPEG codec rather than MPEG2 or MPEG4 or DivX).


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