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| Matrox Rainbow Runner | Analog VideoIn MJPEG hardware |
Win95 Win98 Vista? NT4 *based on user reports. |
PCI | $20 | 7.8/10 13 votes |
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| Making your own home or corporate videos on the PC has never been so easy. Matrox Rainbow Runner Studio lets you capture and edit high quality movies with full resolution Motion JPEG (MJPEG) technology. Just capture video from your camcorder, edit in Hollywood style special effects, and then save your masterpiece to videotape or send it over the Net.
Features - Full resolution video editing, capture and playback with hardware MJPEG compression. - Video conferencing with support for dual video windows. - PC to TV display output with advanced flicker reduction. - Playback from Cut-List feature saves editing time and hard disk space. - Special preview window eliminates the need for separate TV monitors. - Full motion hardware MPEG1 video playback. |
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I think people are talking about two diferent cards. There is a rainbow runner card for the Mystique 220 witch i have (Good for the age.) Then the is a G series rainbow runner card for the Millennium G400 (any card with a G i think)I have the that two with the G400 it the best capture card set up i have had and still use over other cards i have brought for twice the price. I give the G card 10 out of 10. I capture with VirtualDub at max size full compreshion then convert to VCD with TMPpeg.Drops about 2 or 3 frames per hour with perfect sound sink.(sat,free to air,video what ever.)Excelent Card. Comments posted by Darren from Other, December 03, 2002: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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RRG has been excellent for the work I do with it. Very powerful for the price you pay. The problem is with the drivers. Don't even bother trying on NT / Win2000 is my advise. I even installed the latest Win98 drivers but ended up rolling back to older ones. They work better so I'm sticking with them. Matrox will really need to improve its ability to produce drivers if it wants to regain its name. I'm not so sure I would consider a new matrox product of any kind - hardware is great but I don't trust the driver support for WinNT and up. Comments posted by Heintzman from Other, March 13, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 |
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Loved it when I was working with win 98, was able to capture at all full dvd res without losing more than 2 frames in half hour video. However, I made the move to Windows 2000, due to general instability of win 98 itself, where the video capture would not work natively unless I used a third party MJPEG plug-in and captured directly in premiere, and now does not work at all in Windows XP. Come on matrox you once had a Matrox fanatic, and Canafian one at that, but I am sorry to say that due to your lack of driver support and poor technical support that ATi and Nvidia will now getting all of my business. PS what is with the "Headcasting" feature of the G550, that has to be the most useless "feature" I have ever seen. Comments posted by Scott Turner from Other, March 12, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 |
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Yeah, i brought one of these cards recently direct from Matrox, Excellent for Money! Only one prob i've found, It doesn't seem to want to capture when my screen res is 1024x768, it captures 0 frames, but its fine at 800 x 600?? Comments posted by Michael from Other, December 31, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Works great on 98 capturing TV. Never any garbled picture - Matrox Capture app doesn't always record in Stereo for some reason Comments posted by Craig from Other, November 30, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? |
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Killer card.. but come on Matrox.. support it.. Getting tired of buying a Capture card every 3 years. Win98 works kool but NT 4.0.. you can only capture to uncompressed video, and NO support for multi processors. Win2k.. Forget it. Hardware compression is so fast you NEVER drop a frame if you have a decent Harddrive. This card also does not have the macrovision detection.. kool scrape it up if you find it.. Comments posted by Pat from Other, September 23, 2001: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 |
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I've had this card for a long time now, and it still goes strong. Video and SVHS connections in/out and together with my SB-live this is the best quality money can buy , well,,, if you are on a thight budget. The MjPeg compression produces files twice the size of MPG but is better or atleast as good as mpg compression. I dont know if this card is still available in shops, but if you are looking for a cheap card, this is the one. I now have a new card but im still using this card as a secondary card , simply because it's a very good video-card. Comments posted by Lord Squeak from Other, August 28, 2001: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Sucks- Matrox DROPPED MJPEG support under win2k- rendering the card completley useless under win2k. Comments posted by Greg from Other, July 22, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 |
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Stable card, good quality video output. Used mostly for mpeg. Comments posted by Bill Bongle from Other, July 16, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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this is a 3 year old card that goes with a Mystique 220 .. both are for sale at discount prices !! .. i paid 300$ for it 3 years ago .. they are selling it for 73$ canadian now( ~ 50$ US) ..+ 79$ for the mystique if you don't have it .. Really neat card ...if only it worked in Win2000 ... Comments posted by Mrhide from Other, April 11, 2001: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 |
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Old Card !! bought this a looong time ago ( about 3 years.. with Mystique 220 ..) and forgat about it cause HD back then didn't really work at ALL .. so bought a ATI TV WONDER ... mpff.. pretty shitty but ok to start with ...then i rediscovered the Rainbow runner.. man .. this thing RULES !! (with VirtualDub).. Nywayz.. lots of people still using that card :) now i've gat to find drivers for win2k ... Comments posted by Mrhide from Other, April 11, 2001: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4 |
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I bought this card because I had the Matrox G 400 max Video card. Installation was a breeze but the drivers on the installation cd were way out of date. The sound is good but video capture can be crap shoot when capturing from the satellite dish. The 2 GB avo files can be corrupted with garbled video. Its a drag to have captured a program that takes up 5 or 6 avi files and have one of them garbeled up half way through. Comments posted by Anthony Sinn from Other, March 22, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10. |
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Supports Full Resolution MJPEG Hardware Compression, But Requires You to Have a Matrox G400 Video Card. WILL NOT WORK AS A STANDALONE CARD. Comments posted by Jeremy Owens from Other, March 22, 2001: 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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