176x144 does not sound like a good resolution for TV. I have heard some good things about the Pinnacle Studio PCTV. Does anyone have that? Would you recommand it?
How much time do you want to spend on this? A properly filtered and deinterlaced capture, can take quite a while to render but gives superior results. You can capture strait to mpeg, but it won't look very good.
Take these two images.
<IMG SRC="http://www.jfreeland.net/images/farscapeclaud.jpg" border=0>
<IMG SRC="http://www.jfreeland.net/images/farscapeclaud1.jpg" border=0>
The first is a raw capture, with the second being filtered, resized, and rendered to the final format, in this case mpeg4v2.
The Pinnacle will work, but I prefer the Hauppage line because of better driver support. I'll link the clip that the rendered shot came from, but it's pretty good sized. Clip is 24meg, 512X384 done in mpeg4v2. http://www.jfreeland.net/video/farfinal1.avi
Sorry for all the edits, but I finaly got a shorter clip up. Same piece but only 10 seconds worth and four megs http://www.jfreeland.net/video/farclip.avi
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