Re: Composite video to USB gizmo at Aldi


"bland" <bland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_4712.html
>
> Manufacturer's description is VS-USB2800. Available elsewhere at $39
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=612720&CatId=1428
> Handy to transfer recorded DVD's into a PC, when the DVD format is hard to
> hack directly in software.

There was a thread in uk.rec.video.digital a few months back when Aldi last
sold these. I bought one and am very impressed with it. You must have USB 2
for it to work, and it does it's job well. Captures S-video or composite and
l/r audio. It appears to Windows as a standard "imaging device", so can be
used as a capture device in editing programmes (like Premiere), or as an
input source for Windows Media Encoder, Windows Movie Maker, you can even
use it in place of a webcam in Windows/MSN messenger.
It can capture at 720x576 25fps to either MPG2 or AVI depending on software.
Comes with "Power Producer" DVD authoring/burning/editing software, which is
pretty good at what it does, and some other software (which didn't last long
on my hard drive) that included a PVR type app. As "bland" mentioned, it
has no qualms about Macrovision :)
Highly recommended.
hth
Gripper


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