- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You seem to now your stuff my friend. I'm going to post a thread, but as you rob wont see it I thought I'd message you as well. I'd really appreciate it if you could help me with the following:
I have recently purchased 1.3 Tb of storage (split between a C/ of 400gb, and 2 externals, 1 400gb the other 500gb) and want to start capturing footage from my Xbox 360 to these hard-drives to make montages etc. If possible, I’d also like to capture audio in sync with this.
My current setup is as follows:
Xbox 360 with 2 separate output cables. One, the standard non-high def into scart (three pins, the yellow video one and the red and white audio’s) and the other output lead is VGA, which I am current using on my Samsung plasma but also works on my PC monitor. This cable also has a red and white pin coming out of it for audio. It came with an adaptor to join the red and white into a normal mic jack.
A pretty good PC. 2GB Ram, 3.2 GHz dual core processor, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS graphics and like I said 1.3Tb of hard-drive space. The spec isn’t amazing I know, but its okay. It’s a media centre PC, so on the front has a few inputs labelled ‘S-Video 2’, a yellow pin whole with ‘composite video 2’ and then a red and white with audio 2’. I don’t know why they say ‘2’ though as there aren’t these ports in the back to make ‘1’. Although, as I assume I need to buy a capture card, I will not need these no? Or does this imply I have a built in capture card? If so how do I check?. The video card also has 2 output ports, I think these are called HDMI. I use a HDMI 2 VGA lead, that goes into my PC monitor or Samsung TV. This isn’t my card, but this is what the ports look like:
http://www.john-eva.co.uk/Images/Computer_pics/My%20Graphics% 20Card.jpg
Display. I have a Samsung 32” LE32R74BDX, on the back it has HMI/DVI in, PC (which is VGA I think) in, S-video in, Component in, and a couple of scarts. My Sony monitor has a DVI-D and VGA in (although this is labelled ‘HD-15’ for some reason).
IMPORTANT. The Graphics card has DVI-D dual link for digital and analogue. The Sony monitor has DVI-D digital only. You can put a ‘digital’ into an ‘analogue and digital’ but you can’t put an ‘analogue and digital’ into a ‘digital’. See below link for easy explanation:
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html
How can I therefore capture my 360 footage. It doesn’t have to be in HD quality, just quite a bit better than crappy streamed quality. I don’t want to have to run the signal through my PC and then in to my TV/monitor etc, and that produces lag. And in games like halo 2 you cant be dealing with a delay between when you press the button and seeing the bullets coming out of your gun. So it is assumed I need some sort of equipment to split the audio and video signal coming from the Xbox, one going into my TV and the other going into a capture card. Which brings me on to:
Any suggestions on capture cards? Got about £100 to spare, maybe a bit more if I can get a way better one from not much more than this. Also can you give me any info on the leads etc I will need to connect to the PC/TV. Basically an idiots guide to how I am going to do this.
Thank you for even reading this, as it ended up being quite long. Any help would be great.
Thanks!!
Dan.