Video Capture of sky on your PC - help needed

i use a wintv pvr in my pci slot if i wanna record off sky or freeview, works a treat but the data records at high bitrate through the rgb connection, e.g 8 hours = 20gb>>> yes thats gigabytes (recordings are hq). I can also connect via scart but i would need and additional adapter for that. After this i just convert whatever i recorded to lower video size and also edit out trash that i dont need like ads.

voodoomagick Wrote:i use a wintv pvr in my pci slot if i wanna record off sky or freeview, works a treat but the data records at high bitrate through the rgb connection, e.g 8 hours = 20gb>>> yes thats gigabytes (recordings are hq). I can also connect via scart but i would need and additional adapter for that. After this i just convert whatever i recorded to lower video size and also edit out trash that i dont need like ads.

Thanks for that - I have now looked and I have decided to go for the Hauppauge HRV-1100 so watch this space

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ive got 1 of the video capture things they're good but when u record a clip it takes up alot of space

steven6 Wrote:ive got 1 of the video capture things they're good but when u record a clip it takes up alot of space

Yeh i know lol - lots of space but i thought i might watch it in a smaller window and grab it with BSR Screen recorder.

That way the files will not be massive and I can get a good compression rate.

I will use the normal recording for every day stuff and then burn it to DVD etc

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steven6 Wrote:ive got 1 of the video capture things they're good but when u record a clip it takes up alot of space

The command line program ffmpeg for both linux and windows can process all types of video files to reduce their size. The original file can then be deleted.