Is there anyone here who has experience with recording something off the television onto a computer? It can be done, right?
Anyone know how? Or have a good link to something explaining?
I got a new laptop recently, and there was this coard that came with it that said something about “TV this or that”. So I was wondering if this means I can record things off my Television.
I use ATI TV Wonder VE. It’s a TV card that branches off my internet access. Recording is easy, but you have to compress them on your own. The best quality is DVD quality which does 8mb/s, recompression takes a lot of time. There are software out there that does it automatically, but they’ll cost you.
The ‘TV this and TV that’ is probably a TV output meaning that you can plug it into the TV and instead of using your LCD, use the TV as your monitor. I doubt a laptop will have a TV tuner inside. Unless you have a coax jack on the laptop or some connection that goes to a coax, it’s worth a try. Otherwise, most TV cards are for desktops.
Sites vary what you’re looking for. Check your device manager for the name of the ‘tuner’ and then I can help you some more.
you can do that with a dazzle card and some free software if thats what your into for more info you can go here www.dvdrhelp.com check ut the tutorials section it covers how to capture video from tv, convert and compression methods and it also has a forum very helpfull
Okay, thanks for the help, but I’m not going to buy a card (first off, I wouldn’t know how to put it into my laptop (if it’s even possible) and second, I’m not that eager to do it anyway. I just thought if it were possible, why not try it. But it isn’t, so… )
get a tv-tuner for your computer…they are really great! i had one already on my computer…and they work fine. sony even gave me a remote control for it!