[AG-TECH] Recommended Hardware

[Markus Buchhorn]

At 14:44 27/10/2003 +0000, Stuart Poulton wrote:
>Is there any prefered video capture card ? I've been looking at the
>Osprey 220's do 4 of these cards work well with AG ?

We use them in all our nodes just fine (actually 200's - unbalanced audio and RCA instead of BNC). Very nice cards. The only issue is they are 32bit cards, and the number of 32bit PCI slots is going down - getting 4 in one box is getting harder. So, we have 3 in our video capture machines, and another in our display machines where necessary :-) (Both machines are Dell WS530's, and have I think another 3 64bit PCI slots to play with).

I'd be interested to know of any good 64bit video capture cards. Hmmm - I see there is an Osprey-230 now which is 64bit PCI-X! Something to look at... So you could mix and match to suit the slots on your motherboard. The 230 is a bit pricey, but could be a very good performer. Any others out there?

Cheers,
        Markus


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