|  | Posted by Alpha on 12/07/05 00:56 
"Dr Hfuhruhurr" <mike.rew@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1133869188.049954.270640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
 >
 > Scott Ehrlich wrote:
 >> I have a 1 Ghz Pentium 3, 384 Meg RAM, 160 Gig EIDE drive and DVD RW
 >> drive.  I also have a Sony Digital 8 camcorder with firewire connection,
 >> and a firewire port on my PC.  I'm running XP Pro.
 >>
 >> I want to find the cheapest and most reasonable way to capture video from
 >> the camcorder to hard drive, edit out scenes I don't want, somewhere
 >> along
 >> the line convert the footage to mp2 format, and burn it to DVD.
 >>
 >> I picked up an ADS Tech USB 701 box, but according to the USB spec for
 >> 1.1, at 4Mb/s I only get 74 minutes.   I want a full 120+ minutes for
 >> complete capture.   Would upgrading to a USB 2.0 card help with 9Mb/s as
 >> an option, or do I need to straight firewire and allow the software
 >> recommendation of this group to get me to my goal?
 
 Your question is convoluted, confuses terms, and therefore makes no sense at
 all.  Please try re-wording after understanding mb/s, minutes relative to
 capture rate, and USB 1.1 and 2.0 differences.
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