You know, stuff like TV Tuner and that stuff which can easily go on your computer?
Wouldn't that be an easier method over ripping?
Are TV capture cards any good?
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1) Capturing footage from a DVD player rather than ripping it straight off the DVD implies converting digital to analog and then back again, with the result that the frames you get will probably not have exactly the same data as those stored on the DVD. (In the worst case, sending video into the analog domain may produce artifacts such as rainbowing and dot crawl, though I don't know how high the risk is when capturing from a DVD player.) Even if they are, you have to capture to a lossless codec to ensure no quality loss, which leads to:
2) You'd better either have a huge hard drive or be ready to cut clips if you want to capture losslessly, because it's going to take up a lot more space than the MPEG-2 streams ripped from the DVD.
3) I want to say that it's more time-consuming per length of footage, but I've never used a capture card before, so I don't know if there's some way to speed it up past realtime... all I know is that I can usually get 5-8x realtime when ripping.
2) You'd better either have a huge hard drive or be ready to cut clips if you want to capture losslessly, because it's going to take up a lot more space than the MPEG-2 streams ripped from the DVD.
3) I want to say that it's more time-consuming per length of footage, but I've never used a capture card before, so I don't know if there's some way to speed it up past realtime... all I know is that I can usually get 5-8x realtime when ripping.
