Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP

[vat_man]

Turned up in the mail this morning - this thing kicks arse!!

I can watch TV and surf the web - well, I could before, on the laptop, but now with the 21 inch monitor, decent keyboard and the TV screen tucked away in the corner, woo hoo, much more comfortable.

I will need to pick up an S-Video cable for the PS2, so that's next weekend's pick-up - then we'll see some GT3 videos.

 

[Race Idiot]

Great! Now you can create some GTC videos as well
Wanna colaborate and make a cool GT3/GTC video?

 

[vat_man]

Tell a lie - hooks straight in via a video cable.

Appreciate your enthusiasm, Y2TUSCAN - let's crawl before we run...

 

[Race Idiot]

Does you TV card have a s-Video in?
Mine has and you use the phono ends of the crappy scart cable that comes with the PS2.

Oh I forgot you need some sort of video editing software, unless your TV card comes with it.

 

[vat_man]

I've recorded one little video of a quick lap - holy crap, it's 55 meg!!!

 

[Race Idiot]

Try encoding in WMV like I do, it should cut the size down drastically.

 

[vat_man]

Okay, I'll try that - thanks for the tip.

 

[Race Idiot]

Are you recording it with compression on the fly?
I cant do that or it drops frames, I have to record completely uncompressed (lets just say about 4 mins of video is 1.5gb)

Also try to "aquire" sonic foundry vegas video, its a really good video editing program.

 

[vat_man]

It does drop frames - wmv files also look like the lens has been smeared with vaseline. What sort of file size are you uploading to GTPlanet?

 

[Race Idiot]

You should record it completely uncompressed, that way it wont drop any frames whatsoever. I use either 512 kbps wmv or 1megabit wmv. So I think you may be encoding in the lowest quality. My 55 sec lap was bout 3.2mb and the longest video was the DVD rip review that was bout 18mb for 4 mins these were all 512kbps so people can also stream the videos.