Can you recommend a capture card? 4+ cams @ 15+ fps 640x480

Beofres · Post by **Beofres** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:16 pm

Hi!

After my experiences with bluecherry's PV-149 I'm looking for a smaller capture card with higher resolution and more FPS per input without having to deal with the combing. Looking at ebay and places of the like for cheapie cards, I decided to ask here for a recommendation. I'm looking for a capture card that will run at 30fps per input at 640x480 and have at least 4 inputs per card. I realise that when dealing with true NTSC signal that it is interlaced, however I used a hauppage BT878 tuner card once (the composite input) and the chipset had deinterlaced the image on it's own for zoneminder, letting me use a crisp 720x480 resolution beautifully. Has anyone else have a similar experience with a four port or eight port card?

TIA,

-Beofres

Post by **cordel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:20 pm

I haven't. Do you recall what model?

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:20 pm

The PV183 has 8 chips. So does the Kodacoms, if you can fine them. I even use some Chinese cards we get specially modified in production for the cooling issues of the clones.

Beofres · Post by **Beofres** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:36 pm

cordel wrote:I haven't. Do you recall what model?

The Hauppage BT878 or 848. They have an NTSC coax tuner/ FM coax input, s-video in as well as composite input.

Post by **cordel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:41 pm

If you could find a actual model as bt8xx is just a device on the board and not the actual model.
You can see all the models that Hauppage has made here:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support.html

Hauppauge product codes on WinTV boards are normally found on the TV tuner. This is a five digit number normally followed by a revision (REV). You need to look at the first two numbers to determine the product type.