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| Adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center USB 2.0 | Tv Tuner Analog VideoIn MPEG1 hardware MPEG2 hardware |
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USB2 | $150 | 5.4/10 5 votes |
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| Adaptec® VideOh!™ DVD Media Center USB 2.0 Edition provides an all-in-one solution for watching, controlling and recording video and TV on your PC. The solution easily captures analog video from camcorders, VHS tapes and digital media to convert into MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files. As a personal video recorder (PVR), Media Center allows you to record TV shows, pause, instant replay, fast forward and rewind, as well as burn onto DVD or video CD. It also includes Sonic™ MyDVD™ video creation software to edit, manage and burn video clips and photo slide shows.
You Control the Action! DVD Media Center lets you control how you watch TV. Simply activate time-shift mode and you're ready to control live TV - Pause, Rewind, Instant Replay, Fast Forward, or Skip the boring parts. Personal Video Recording (PVR) Use the included remote control to surf live TV or select programs to record. Access the online Electronic Program Guide to schedule recording of your favorite TV shows. Digital Photo Album VideOh! DVD Media Center makes it easy to craft customized slide shows of your digital photographs. It takes just a few clicks to build, publish and burn your photo album on DVD or CD. Enhance, Edit, & Burn your own DVDs and CDs Convert home movies (camcorders, VHS, Hi8, or existing digital media files) to DVD or Video CD format. Use the award-winning Sonic MyDVD software to create your own interactive DVDs compatible with your PC and most DVD players. Highlights Watch & Control live TV on your PC MPEG-2 Hardware Encoding for Highest Video Quality Enhance your Video with Sound, Titles and Special Effects Burn TV, Home Movies & Photos to DVD & Video CD Complete List of Supported Operating Systems |
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I had a hell of a time getting any other authoring program other than the one which came with it (MyDVD 4.x). I had retired it about six months ago for an ADS Pyro AV/Link. I had since started using it again with Cyberlink's Power Director ( an excellent authoring package for beginners and experts). The captured video is of high quality but oversized due to the audio format. I use Sony Vegas to downconvert (I hope the Vegas lite version would work also). The PVR is not reliable enough to use regularly. If you have or plan to upgrade to MCE 2005, the ATI Theater 550 card is a great alternative. Say goodbye to your VCR! Comments posted by Cruciald from United States, January 09, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I do not like this product at all!!! I paid $190 for it at Circuit City over a year ago. It shows a smiling guy on the cover. He's so happy because he has just transfered his vacation video to DVD using his adaptec VideOh! DVD Media Center USB 2.0. I have tried at least 50 times to capture an analog signal and it hasn't worked ONCE! After about 25 minutes of capture the video begins to lag behind the audio. After 1.5 hours of capture the video is 2 seconds behind the audio! This "known issue" as it is called on adaptec's website renders this product completely worthless, in my opinion, for capturing video to a computer. Thier solution: capture shorter segments. This technique, however, is not real desirable when the source you're capturing is of high importance. You will wind up with cut-in's all over the place breaking up your recording. Why bother burning your VHS tape to DVD at all if the result will look like you recorded it during an earthquake?! And support...forget about it. Comments posted by bpegg from United States, February 02, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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I bought the AVC-2310 version from amazon.co.uk several months ago for £120. I have a whole list of bugs/problems that I could list with this device or perhaps the software. I have no idea if I have a faulty device or the software is just c**p. The only reason I have hung onto it so long is that for the short time it did work it gave great results. I am in the process of trying to return it to Amazon, which is proving as frustrating as trying to get the bloody thing working. (I will never buy from Amazon again). Having now read dozens of posts on this forum one thing is obviously clear. A device might work perfectly OK for one person and not at all for another. There are so many hardware/software/driver dependencies and compatibility issues that whatever you buy you are taking a risk. My advice is make sure that you can get decent support, can you get support from the manufacturer or software supplier? While Adaptec did respond promptly when I used the support on their web site they only thing they suggested was install the latest drivers for the graphics card, install the latest mobo USB drivers, install DirectX 9.0b, install the latest sound drivers and install the latest BIOS for the mobo and so on and on and on. After 4 completely new installs of Windows 2000 I decided to call it a day. No attempt was ever made to diagnose any problem; it doesn't seem possible with the software supplied. You cannot get any support from InterVideo, as far as I can see it doesn't exist and they have no updates on their website. Comments posted by Tony from United Kingdom, October 08, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10. |
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It seems everyone posted to the PCI version of this product. So if you want to read more about it, go there. Personally I think they are similar in terms of the chipset, but I might be wrong. I bought the USB 2.0 version from CompUSA at 50% off for $90 after mail-in rebates. The MPEG video is of good quality. Another nice thing is that you can schedule multiple recordings using different MPEG profiles: for example, 8Mbps for a 1-hour concert, 2Mbps for my 6-year-old's cartoon. The only down side to me is that the audio is ALWAYS captured as LPCM file format which results in rather large file size, so I have to re-encode it to MPEG1-layer2 audio file format in order to put around 4 hours on a DVD. My ideal process is: Scheduled record as MPEG2, edit with Womble, and burn DVD with TMPGEnc. Finally decided to return it because it can't replace my ADS DVD Xpress box just yet in terms of the time saved. Comments posted by ADS DVD Xpress Fan from United States, August 12, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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If you want to convert analogue video tape to Mpeg2 Dvd format this device is great, capturing and converting in real time at high bitrates and DVD resolution. The quality is similar to that of VCD authored from a DVD using DVDx there are glassy artifacts around titles. but from a VHS tape its good; capturing at DVD resolutions and definately watchable. It will work with windows ME and it is smart enough to split files at the 4gig mark. Windvr3 is bundled and it works quite well the remote even starts windvr3 for you. however a badly mangled tape can cause the capture to stop when it loses sync. with the tvtuner if you plug directly into cable Encrypted channels are likely to lock it up. but the unencripted ones are fine. I dont think teletext is supported although closed captions maybe. One feature which isnt available is the ability to use the hardware to reencode existing footage. So cutting editing and mixing is all down to your PC. you get no advantage from the device once your footage is on your harddrive. Windvr3 is quite a nice application does what is needed. MYDVD on the other hand is terrible to use and I have not used it to produce a DVD yet. It only supports one title so if your film got split its not going to join it together when it makes the VOB files. If you have nero vision express (often bundled with dvd recorders) you are better off to use this for authoring adding chapter points cutting joining your files (working with the least possible compression seems to be the way to go with nero) with nero you can produce an oversized movie in a folder then use dvd shrink to compress it enough to fit on a 4.7 gig disk. Both programs are a lot easier to use than MYDVD. MyDVD has one feature which might be useful you can author with an animated background to your titles; I am not sure if you can author your own title backgrounds. At the moment adaptec do not seem to have any linux support and WINDVDR3 appears to be the only way to use the hardware. Summing up I would say the realtime MPEG2 Encoding is pretty good the supplied software is really poor for authoring dvd's and its a shame you can't get it to process your final footage. I think the device is probably capable of more than the software allows it to do. If you need to capture Analogue tape its good I havent yet used its time shifting features so i will not comment on that. For the price its probably worth it. whats it good for? analogue home movie footage- although more likely these days you would have a digital camcorder. converting your old VHS films to DVD. perhaps worthwhile although rapidly being made illegal in many countrys. To turn your PC into a digital video Recorder with the option of burning to DVD. To watch TV yes its pretty good nicam stereo. It's worth the extra over a standard PCI tv/capture card and if adaptec are willing to allow third partys to develop software for it, it could get a whole lot better. My final rating is 9 because I dont think your going to get a lot better encoding from analogue MYDVD lets it down and the inability to use it for encoding outside of capturing is a shame but for the price what can you expect. (nero authored my cut footage in about an hour for 3 hours of home movie footage DVD shrink reduced it in size to make it fit on a disk in about 20 minutes this was on a AMD XP1600) Comments posted by John from United Kingdom, June 24, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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