nvidia 7950 work as capture card? 1

[electronicsfreak]

Soon as I get money back from college that is leftover im going to be buying some stuff to get back into video editing. I was looking at different capture cards when a friend mentioned that you could use the video card for capture. I had never done this before as I had always used capture cards.

I am running an evga pcie 16x 7950 512MB video card. I have the link below. Is it possible to capture video will this card? If it does will it capture very well or would I be better off with a capture card?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130061

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[Nelviticus]

The spec page says "VIVO: No", so the answer is 'no' for that card - VIVO stands for Video In, Video Out.

Capture cards are generally better than VIVO-enabled graphics cards because the latter normally only have s-video inputs, which isn't too bad but you can get better. The main down-side is that video input is an afterthought so the drivers (and possibly signal quality) aren't going to be as good as a dedicated capture card.

I used to have an nVidia VIVO card which I used for capturing and my main problem was that the driver blue-screened quite often.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[electronicsfreak]

ah ok thanks and star for you for teaching me what vivo means lol. Appreciate it!

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon