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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (46100)	10/14/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

In my experience, no. Depends on video size, framerate, compression settings. Which would explain ATI's use of the DVxplore on the Video Wonder product. It would be interesting to know what the spec's are for the capture portion for this re-released card.

To: Black-Scholes who wrote (46100)	10/14/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

In looking at the ATI users guide ;^) it says... (I have the 8mb version) The quality of the video that you can capture depends on the following conditions: Speed of your CPU Amount of system Ram Performance of your Hard disk Size of the video capture window Video Codec (encoder/decoder) used: YUV9 - Best Quality, most memory ATI VCR 1.0 - Requires Pentium 166 or faster, Dramatically reduced disk space requirements ATI VCD 2.0 - Uses on the fly compression to achieve 9:1 comp over YUV16. Requires MMX or Pentium 2. ----- It does not capture and compress to MPEG2. It captures AVI files using a low overhead Codec that doesn't compress nearly as well as MPEG2. They also have an MPEG capture, but I beleive it's MPEG1 and it requires a P3 to do anything but I-Frame only compression. The quality is about what you get off the internet. IMO it's a bit less than VHS, and boy does it fill up your harddisk. Needs more quality compression to be truely useful as a DVR. Needs a DVxplore ;-)