Re: Recording from Freeview box to PC



"Andy Hoe" <mambafia@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1122539108.642927.256810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, can anyone suggest a good way to basically use my PC as a video
> recorder from my freeview box? I already have a Hauppauge WinTV USB box
> which will get a fairly bad analogue reception, but when I try to
> connect my freeview box (which has to go from scart to composite to
> s-video as they're the only cables I have!) I can't pick it up at all.
> Would it be best to ditch the WinTV box and get one of those all in one
> TV cards with freeview built in or is there any advice as to how to get
> my current equipment set up correctly?

When proper PCI freeview tuners are now only in the order of £40 and you end
up with the raw MPEG2 recording, I think the answer is obvious, don't mess
about with analogue capture ;)


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