Marvel G400 vs. All-In-Wonder

[Raskolnikov]

gt2000 or anyone else who has experience with these two cards, how does the capture quality of All-In-Wonder compare with your Marvel G400? I think I have the hardware to use the All-In-Wonder well, but some people seem to think that the Marvel produces better results.

Athlon 1GHz on a KT133 motherboard
384 MB PC133 RAM
60 GB IBM 60GXP (Can upgrade to RAID if needed)

I'm mainly concerned with capture quality, but I haven't been able to find many comparisons based on first-hand use of these two cards. I would like to be able to capture video from my Tivo, edit it and burn it as SVCD or DVD.

TIA for any information.

[Dr Mordrid]

The Marvel G400 isn't made any more. The current product is the Marvel eTV, which works quite nicely.

Its PC-VCR program captures MPEG-2 and RGB (need a RAID for RGB though). Your system meets the minimum spec for full frame MPEG-2 capture.

It's YUY2 capture mode (availble from VirtualDUB, AVI_IO etc.) can be used with excellent results using the PICVideo MJPeg, HuffYUV or any number of softcodecs. This is now I typically use it.

Using MSPro or VideoStudio it can capture both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 using their capture modules.

I gave up on ATI long ago because of their crappy (and infrequently updated) drivers.

Dr. Mordrid