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| AVerMedia DVD EZMaker | Analog VideoIn |
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PCI | $50 | 7.7/10 94 votes |
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| Capture, create, and record! It’s that simple! AVerMedia DVD EZMaker PCI is a complete package that allows you to create DVD quality home videos on a CD or DVD in real-time. It is the ideal solution for capturing videos from camcorders or VCRs to a CD, DVD, or your PC. The DVD authoring capability enables you to turn video to DVD in an easy one-step process at High Resolution (up to 720x480) ! You can also re-edit the previously recorded video and re-burn it onto the same DVD It also allows you to perform basic editing functions, like add titles, audio overlay on to your video clips, and much more!
DVD Format MPEG-2 VBR (5Mbps Average, 8.1Mbps Maximum) PCM Audio 48KHz/16 bits 2 Channels VCD Format MPEG-1 Video 1152 kbps MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio 224 kbps Features: Software MPEG-2 Encoding Chipset: BT878 |
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Hello! I have a problem. I bought an Avermedia DVD Ezmaker 7 usb capture device. I installed it and the attached Cyberlink DVD Suite. But when I start the program and I connect the device, a disturbing hissing noise starts to sound. Like in this video: http://youtu.be/dCMecPag_ks And it sounds, when there is nothing connected to the device. I wonder what causes this? Anyone can help? Comments posted by beatbandit from Hungary, July 30, 2011: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10. |
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I use this card (PCI version) to capture home video from Sony Hi8 tapes and convert to DVD. Using the supplied software (neoDVD), I always had audio/video sync problems, which could be corrected using other software (VideoReDo among others). However, the sound quality of the audio was also poor enough that I just couldn't live with the results. It had slight but noticable distortion that occurred whenever there was normal to loud sound levels in the audio (people talking, etc.) This could not be correcting by adjusting record level, etc. Audio from the camcorder was input into the line-in on the (integrated) sound card, but I also tried using digial audio played back from within the PC as the sound source, but it too had the same distortion. The video quality, however, is actually quite good and encodes to MPEG2 on the fly - impressive. Also, the DVD authoring software is adequate but very limited and forces you to create an odd top level menu that's completely unnecessary. Generally very basic control with no indication of specifics that you're adjusting (what bit rates correspond to Good, Better, Best, for example). Due to the sound issues, I now use VirtualVCR for capture, VirtualDub for editing, HC Encoder for MPEG2 encoding, and DVDAuthorGUI for authoring (all free software). Complicated and time consuming (not to mention the wicked learning curve), but end results are exactly the way I want them to be, including completely custom menus, etc. And it's been a great education in video to boot. Recommended as a decent/good quality piece of hardware at a very low price ($30 CAD) but with some insurmountable faults in the software package. Comments posted by Brian from Canada, August 23, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I use this card in a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 box with a gig of RAM and with sound input via a Soundblaster PC128 chip on the motherboard. It does a very acceptable job of capturing video from my Hi-8 camcoder (via S-video port) and VCR (via composite video port). I do get some dropped frames pretty regularly, but it is an annoyance at most. I have not had sound/video sync problems. The Sonic software supplied is adequate, but I use Pinnacle Studio 9.4 with the card and that works quite well. I bought a Plextor PX-402U recently to try to get around the dropped frames problem and to speed up rendering. Surprisingly, that product gets me inferior quality results and gives buggy DVD's that will not play on my Cyberhome player that has never failed to play anything else. It saves you time, but you get a worse result than the $50 Avermedia product gives for 3x that cost. Comments posted by nopcbs from United States, January 06, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I purchased this card for work in order to stream video from my development machine. So far my impression is somewhat positive. The latest card has Philips SAA7134 chip in it and produces significantly better quality captures than BT/Conexant based cards. I have compared them side by side. Card installed without any problems and worked just fine from the start in XP machine. I have not tried bundled software as I needed capture card for very specific purpose - to stream video using VLC. Unfortunately for that purpose card is not very good. Bundled driver report frame rate in a way that is not understood by VLC codecs and half of the codecs that used to work with Conexant card does not work anymore. I am not sure if this is the problem of VLC or the driver, but dealing with avermedia products makes me think it is the driver. I found workaround for this problem to capture and stream at 25fps which is OK for my purpose as I only need to see the video. I suspect that same reason is causing other software not to work. AverMedia released generic reference driver and due to it being developed in Germany it was not tested well with NTSC frame rate. The fix must be very easy but driver source is needed. I have tried other SAA drivers but none of them worked. Over all it is a good piece of hardware if you find the driver, use it with Linux, or if you live in Europe in 25fps land. Just like with other aver products, software is not so great. Comments posted by Alex from United States, October 21, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Bought this card recently.It is the gold version with Phillips chipset.No problem during installation,only the driver.I am using with it Pinnacle studio plus with no problem. Comments posted by Eyal from Israel, August 22, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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The current versions of this card have the Philips chipset, which I've read on forums is supposed to give "slightly to somewhat" better quality at lower resolutions than the cards with the older BT8x8 chipsets. Since I don't have one of each card, I really can't run comparison tests. The software that comes with the card is a cruel joke, suitable perhaps for the completely untechnical novice who can barely use AOL, but if you are past that stage you'll probably be dissatisfied with it. The software has almost no settings and gives no indications about dropped frames, no adjustmenys over color, contrast, etc. The preview window is next to useless, as it shows only 1 frame every 1 or 2 seconds. If you want better software try iuVCR. It's $26.95 but it works well with the card, if you follow the guide on www.digitalfaq.com. This is the kind of software that should have been included with the card in the first place.(I tried a couple of the free capturing softwares recommended for this card, but could not get them to work.) My 720x480 captures under HuffYUV and PicVideo MJPEG (at a setting of "20") with good quality VHS sources have been satisfactory. When the VHS sources were of old/poor quality/multigenerational dubs, etc, I had both dropped frame issues and audio/video sync issues. This is not the card's fault though, but the fault of the source (would happen with any card). Both of these problems were solved 100% with the purchase of a Datavideo TBC-100 full-frame TBC (not cheap though!) Comments posted by V20 from United States, April 27, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I bought one of these a couple of months ago and never was able to get it to work. I got sound, but no video. Support from AverMedia was non-existent. I even did a complete clean re-install of WinXP Pro without success. I don't know if it's my motherboard or what was conflicting with this card, but eventually I gave up on this PoS and bought a Dazzle 90 USB2 instead, which has worked perfectly since day 1. Mythoughts are to avoid this and any other AverMedia productrs like the plague, mainly because of their so-called support. Comments posted by Labbie from United States, April 20, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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I'm having the same problem as Mike posted on January 31, 2005. I've had this card for about 9 months now and have very good results....until last week. Now all of a sudden I'm not getting any audio. I haven't changed any of my settings because I had no reason to do so, and I was getting great results up until last week. The video is still fine, but now I can't hear anything, and I know I'm hooking everything up correctly because everything worked perfectly before. I'm hoping this site will tell me what's the problem now. Comments posted by sk from United States, April 04, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Using the card to convert my hi-8 tapes to dvd. I have tried other software out but in the end I always come back to the software that comes with the card, NeoDVd. I used virtualvcr and IUvcr with huffy codec and then tmpgenc to convert to dvd but the results were identical to capturing on the fly with neodvd to mpeg2. And that ofcourse saves all the time of conversion. For the price, it can't be beat. I can't tell any diffrence with hooking up the campcorder directly to the tv and my conversion using this card, which is what I wanted all along. I can hang on to my hi-8 camcorder till affordable Hi def ones come out. Comments posted by Nelson from United States, March 24, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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TO MIKE WHO POSTED BELOW ON JANUARY 31, 2004: Check to see if in “Volume Control,” Line In or Mic isn’t set to mute. If they are not and you still get no audio, check your sound card. My soundcard is integrated and does not have a Line In input but only a Mic input. If this is the case with your soundcard as well, open up the neoDVD software and select the “Capture” option. Beneath the screen area where you can see what video is being captured there is an “Audio Source” drop down menu. Make sure your soundcard is selected, and then click on the icon next to the menu. Here, make sure to select which input your audio is going into. And that should be it. The same applies to the other programs you’ve mentioned. The card will capture audio; it’s simply a matter of using the proper input setting in the software that you are using - hope this helps. *I will rate the card after a few more days of having used it. Comments posted by Shelley from United States, February 28, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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well im not rating it yet.,...heres why...i installed the card and downloaded the driver....i get great video in most of the profies i try example iuvcr..and neo..but cant get audio period...has anyone else have this problem...if so id sure like an headsup on how to rectify...thanks.. Comments posted by mike from Canada, January 31, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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This card has the Philips SAA7130HL chip. It is not an 8x8 chipset. The card seems to work quite well with the bundled software, NeoStudio, and with the Nero software that came with my LiteOn DVD drive. It also works with VirtualVCR and the like. But I cannot get it to work with either AVI_IO or VirtualDub. Neither of these programs will capture through this card. I even set up a completely separate bare-bones Windows 98 installation sollely for dealing with DVD and those two programs will not work. I note from the comments that a few other people have encountered the same problem. Has anyone solved it? I have sent a query tgo AverMedia but have not yet had a response. I want to capture in those two programs because they yield AVI files and becvause they can capture in linked segments. Comments posted by Peter J. Brennan from United States, January 01, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I have had this card for about a year (paid about 40.00 CAD for it from tigerdirect), and am extremely satisfied with it so far. I have a low-end system (onboard video, 800 MHz athlon overclocked to 1 gig), but have not had any problems with the NeoDVD software. I especially like the direct burning feature, which lets me capture directly to DVD in real time. I haven't had much success in any other capture software, like Nero, winDVD, etc., probably because they are CPU intensive. The only other option I have tried is capturing short vhs videos (30min) to mpeg2 files, and burning them to dvd using nero, and that also works for me. The only complaint I have with the neoDVD software is the lack of controls (brightness, saturation, hue etc), but if your tapes are of good enough quality, you shouldn't run into any problems. In terms of bang for the buck, you really can't beat this one! Comments posted by Hap from Canada, December 05, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Must have missed the boat someplace....Trying to do all the things everyone is talking about...Using a Dell Dimension 2400 with 256mb of memory...When attempting to capture VHS tapes the video on the monitor is very jumpy and when playing back the video can't syn with the audio. I am using a 160Gig hard drive as F:\ to save the files...I sent a email to Avermedia, but haven't heard from them...Been two months...I went back to using my Dazzle 80 usb and Pinnacle startup software and works great...Of course Pinnacle Startup version 8 doesn't work with the AverMedia DVD EZMaker...At least mind didn't....So I can't give it a very useful rating... Comments posted by Bob from United States, November 23, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10. |
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After much research on this web site, I bought and installed this card yesterday ($30 at Fry's!). As previously mentioned, Windows did not recognize the card until I installed it into a different PCI slot. (I didn't have anymore free ones, which meant I had to switch it places with my modem, which was a little scary for this newbie, but it worked.) My first capture had video but no audio, but I eventually discovered that the line in on my sound card was set to mute! I am using iuVCR; it appears to me that with neoDVD you cannot capture into AVI, which is what I wanted. 8 out of 10 for the PCI slot issue, the fact that the instructions indicated that Windows would tell me that it had installed new hardware, but it didn't (I had to poke around to even know it was there), and the fact that the packaged hardware is useless to me. Comments posted by Brooke Hollingsworth from United States, October 26, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Well, my brother-in-law liked his, so my brother got one, and my dad saw it and immediately wanted one, and I played with it and am going to get one the next time it comes on sale at Fry's. For what I want it for -- to convert old home movies from twenty analog VHS-C tapes cluttering up a box -- it is just what the doctor ordered. Once you get the three red/white/yellow plugs connected to the VCR and start up your VCR and the program, you just click the "capture" button on the program when the tape in the VCR hits the spot you want to start capturing. Hit end when you want to stop, and it's saved as a .mpg or vcd on your hard drive. The quality is as good as the original, and our test capture of a segment of "Shrek" came out almost as good as the original, copied in real time. The sound was very good as well. The software has one glitch, where it "pre-sets" the amount of time each segment will run, and if you're grabbing a lot of small pieces, the length of the captured segment preset will decrease each time. If you don't re-set it, the capture will end in as little as 20 seconds. If you can remember to do that, it works smoothly. So, for not much ($30 at Fry's on sale) you can grab all those old memories and Email 'em around to your broadband friends and relatives -- a real boon. Beats spending $800 for a real digital movie camera. Comments posted by Jay Hughes from United States, October 14, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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First of all this review is for the pro pci edition of this card with a built in encoder.I had tried other products and they were just junk.Especially the ADS products.When i got this one i thought it would be more of the same but wow was i wrong""This capture card is outstanding.My first dvd which i captured from a commercial vhs(i paid for)came out beautiful""I was shocked at the quality.I have been wanting to keep from buying all my 600+ library of vhs on dvd.This card saved me a fortune and is rather inexpensive.I paid $129.00 for it and is the best investment i have ever made in a computer product.Buy it and you will see what i mean. Comments posted by leigh wade from United States, August 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Well i tried it, and loved it for the price, i simply use Cyberlink PowerVcr, or Mainconcept Mpeg Encoder 1.4.2, and i must say the quality, is surprising to say the least, i have seen far worst, with capture cards, that cost $200-300, so for the price it's a winner..... Comments posted by robert from Canada, August 24, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I just bought this card at Fry's Electronics for $9.95 after a $30 rebate. It worked the first time(!) I transferred one of my old VHS tapes to VCD. I've only used the VCD option but it looks very good (for a VCD) played on my projection TV. I'm strictly a home user so the videophiles may not be impressed but for 10 bucks this thing rocks! Comments posted by Joe Lenger from United States, August 21, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Bought pretty much every capture card around and this one satisfied my needs. Converted a lot of home movies with pretty desirable dropped frames currently running on a PIII 533 system. Can only capture at VCD resolution. I am using the Virtual Dub and sometimes Vegas 4.0 for capture. Big bang for the buck!! Comments posted by Arcue from United States, July 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I read a lot of stuff on this website before I purchased AverMedia EZMaker PCI card. As much as I could gather some people have problems with the software, but in most cases the card works. I thing the card works just fine but it depends on what you want to use it for. For my purpose of downloading VHS video actually supercede my expectations because I originally bought Belking USB Video Bus 2 and that was a nightmare. What a piece of sh… I couldn’t get a decent picture or sound and just to make sure that it was not a fault of my computer, I replaced the motherboard, got faster processor (2.6Ghz), more memory (1GB), defragmented my hard drive, got brand new 80 Gig Hard Drive, closed all other application and still I couldn’t get a decent result. It was dropping frames like creasy. In 40 minutes video it dropped 1,145 frames. I feel very sorry for that guy somewhere in U.K. who is claiming on this website that the Belking USB video Bus 2 for the price of 80 British pounds is actually good product. Obviously he hasn’t seen better, poor sucker. But getting back to AverMedia, this card is really good, but I did not bother to install the bundled software after what I read about it on this website. I just install the driver and I am using Video Wave 4 to capture the video and it is working great. So far I have not had one problem with it and it dropped only 28 frames in 40 minutes video. I would definitely recommend this card. Comments posted by John from United States, July 13, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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This card works ok. It's a great deal for its price. The software that comes with it is not really that great (neoDVD). I'm using Ulead VideoStudio 7 (make sure to set the capture options "Force to use preview mode" otherwise card won't work) instead since you can set better settings rather than the 3 preinstalled settings in neoDVD (Good, Better, Best). Only other problem with this card is that on older VHS videos, the video contrast becomes really bright. Also, this card uses software encoding so you must have a fast processor for DVD 720x480 3Mbps and up captures. Celeron 2.8GHz works ok for lower bit-rates and resolutions. I recommend at least a P4 2.4GHz 533MHz bus. Comments posted by Kevin from Canada, May 24, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Not perfect, but for the price it's hard to beat. At first I had problems with lots of framedrops when using the NeoDVD software, but I soon started using VirtualDub for my captures and resolved the problem. I can't really testify for its quality as a 720x480 DVD-level card as I've only captured at 352x240 VCD-level, but it works just dandy for that. No real complaints here. Comments posted by lugnut from United States, April 19, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I bought the card for the price and favorable reviews here. The goal is to make permanent dvds from TiVo DVR. I also took the recommendation to ignor the NEO software, so I went out and bought MAGIX 2004.....what a mistake. After much time weeding out the software(terrible help, guide, pdf, & poor english translation) I found I was sorely dissapointed with the quality. Tried the NEO and found that quality was very good, and colors, contrast etc were spot on. Had a couple of questions, and MedioStream responded within 24 hrs. That puts them at the top of my "mfg. response chart" Edit function is weak, but you can remove blocks of commercials. Big strength is its speed. It pretty much encodes and writes a disc in real time! For limited usage...it would be tough to beat. Comments posted by Peter Borck from United States, April 08, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I read about this capture card here. Some good and some bad. I cannot say enough GOOD things about this card for the price I paid at Office Max for $49. My purpose was to convert all my VHS tapes over to DVD Disc. After trying alot of different software...I went back to the neo DVD software that came with the card. My results have to date been of a GOOD VHS Quality on the Disc. You cant's ask for more than that without spending BIG BUCKS on Professional software. I capture with the neo software in DVD format, setup chapter's, and finalize the codeing to a empty folder. The resulting files are way too large to fit on a DVD-R disc. I then use DVD Shrink, and burn using Nero 6.3. The end result is perfect sound to video match and a very good picture quality. Of course this also depends on the quality of your original movie. To get around the macrovision I use "Macro Terminator II" made by SCC. This is a VERY GOOD CARD !!!!! My System: Intel P4 3.04 ghz on a Intel motherboard 768 Mb DDR Ram nVida card 64Mb 80 Gb hard drive 7200 rpm w/8mb buffer Windows Me w/ all updates Liteon DVD Writer Hi-val DVD Player Comments posted by OtterBob from United States, April 07, 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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