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(Use it in analog video capture)
Today (Wednesday) Woot is selling Diamond Multimedia/ATI
TV Wonder USB2 HDTV Stick (TVW600USB) spec here for $25 shipped.
It has Digital DTV tuner, analog tuner, S-video, and composite video input. No ClearQAM tuner though. Per spec sheet 32bit (and 64bit driver) Vista is also supported.
These usually require fairly fast machines. Additional info :
- analog video is software compressed by PC (DTV is MPEG2 already)
- Some tried on 32bit Win7 and it works.
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greg
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It says it has...S-video input with adapter... Does that mean that it's not a true S-Video input?
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johnnyha
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"Capture from VCRs, camcorders with the included audio/video input cable"... Looks like a TV tuner, with other interesting possibilities...
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ccs_hello
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Greg,
Click he product picture to see the zoomed picture.
"S-video and composite video" adapter is a cable which plugs into the dongle. S-video signal is then fed into the USB stick's video AFE/digitizer IC.
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mclewis1
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A year ago I purchased a very similar product from Pinnacle. I've used mine to successfully capture S-Video from my Mallincam. Fun little unit but the Pinnacle HDTV s/w isn't always the most stable. It does work better with some extra cpu and ram although my laptop with a 1.6Ghz Core2 Duo cpu does handle it just fine. If I'm manipulating the S-Video streams from the Mallincam I prefer to use my desktop (more/faster cpu, ram and video processing).
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Just wish to add that today I received the device. I found out that for ATSC TV viewing, the "Catalyst Media Center" (software MPEG decoder and the video driver) is not optimized for my PC (a Merom-2M Pentium Dual-Core T2370 laptop) thus display is jittery. However, when I used Microsoft's "Windows Media Center" (I have Vista Home Premium 32bit) to display DTV, even in time-delayed playback mode, it worked perfectly fine.
I'll try analog NTSC baseband video in very soon and report back.
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ccs_hello
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Now tried baseband composite video. Now "Catalyst Media Center" worked fine and looking good/no jitter/stutter.
Also tried AMCAP which is 720*480 YUY2 (this is a form of 4:2:2 YUV, 16 bits/pixel) video display and still capture.
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ccs_hello
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Just few updates:
1. Faster laptop with a graphics accelerator chip works better if using "Catalyst Media Center". This test machine is using WinXP.
2. The actual chipset in use is
Xceive Silicon tuner/demodulator and
video/audio decoder + ATSC media stream transport over USB2.0 (eMPIA 287x or 288x IC).
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