Well I remember that I used the marvel to record TV from an analogue Sat receiver using win2k. So what card would give the best results on what OS and hardware? Reply 1 of 4, by PhilsComputerLab (even have some faster CPU's but no mainboard to support it or whit no AGP). For the Marvel I would have some more choices, like Pentium II, III, IV, Althlon XP in a range from 400 up to 2667 mhz. Than the other hardware, for the Miro I would have a PowerMac G3 or G4 between 233 and 866 Mhz (card won't fit in a G5). Than the OS question: Windows or Mac? The Marvel is a AGP card and only works on Windows (), the Miro is PCI and also works on Windows as on Mac OS 9 (and OSX whit custom drivers and software). Although the specs of the marvel says it should capture up to 1024 x 768, 1280 x 720 I only remember a capture of 704x576 (which is enough for a VHS capture). And from the Marvel I have everything cause I bought it new in a box back in 2001. Now the question is which one to use? From the CD30 I only have the card and no software, cables e.t.c. The Mirco DC30 and the Matrox marvel G450 e-TV. The codecs themselves were cool, & I think personally that the prob was these matrox codecs are made up of older code, minimally patched as required for use with xp sp1, wdm, and so on.I'm planning to make a video capture PC again, for capturing some VHS tapes. Just a couple of the prob, and some were no doubt caused by other software on my system. Had prob with some stuff sofo dv encoded, as other apps looked for stuff in the encoded file that wasn't there, but which the matrox codec looked for. This caused prob in some apps as they weren't compatible with the matrox version. However, set as the default by the install in xp pro sp1, access to the more generic MS version went away. The dv codec is partially vfw compatible, which is cool. The mjpeg codec took over - resinstalling picvid helped, but nothing ever went back 100% - still some matrox stuff in the registry I can't find, & that was after uninstall. testing them that my conscience makes me warn others. Codecs are probably fine and good in the majority of situations for the majority of users, but I had enough prob. FWIW, installing the codec pack last month I think for testing, had a few problems, well more then a few actually, but that's another story for another time.
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