Hello to all.
I need for work purposes to transfer VHS tapes to V-CD format, to be played from the hard disk in the PC monitor. The computer that would do this is a PII400 W2000 Server. Tapes are between 40 and 50 minuts long.
I had my mind set on a Provideo card that has both hardware V-CD encoding and a sound card. It seems this card is no longer available so next choice is a WinTV 250 that has a tuner and MPEG 1/2 hardware encoding capabilities.
But this card has no sound capabilities so a separate sound card must be installed. I only need folded mono at 8-bits if that helps. It's for translation purposes.
I'm concerned about CPU utilization, that may lead to synching defects in the resulting files. Synching is quite important for my work. No noticeable lack of synch should exists between the voice and the lips movement from beginning to end.
Need to select an inexpensive sound card that would run with a low-powered (PII400) W2000 system (that also runs other apps), and that will create adequate video files. It seems that when used in NT/2000 systems, some or all sound cards use a lot of CPU processing, even if they have hardware coders.
Any help is welcome. I can't afford to make a wrong choice here. Also can't afford to upgrade anything else on the computer at this time.
Many, many thanks in advance.
I need for work purposes to transfer VHS tapes to V-CD format, to be played from the hard disk in the PC monitor. The computer that would do this is a PII400 W2000 Server. Tapes are between 40 and 50 minuts long.
I had my mind set on a Provideo card that has both hardware V-CD encoding and a sound card. It seems this card is no longer available so next choice is a WinTV 250 that has a tuner and MPEG 1/2 hardware encoding capabilities.
But this card has no sound capabilities so a separate sound card must be installed. I only need folded mono at 8-bits if that helps. It's for translation purposes.
I'm concerned about CPU utilization, that may lead to synching defects in the resulting files. Synching is quite important for my work. No noticeable lack of synch should exists between the voice and the lips movement from beginning to end.
Need to select an inexpensive sound card that would run with a low-powered (PII400) W2000 system (that also runs other apps), and that will create adequate video files. It seems that when used in NT/2000 systems, some or all sound cards use a lot of CPU processing, even if they have hardware coders.
Any help is welcome. I can't afford to make a wrong choice here. Also can't afford to upgrade anything else on the computer at this time.
Many, many thanks in advance.