DVD player hookup?

[brentconn]

Is it possible to hook up a DVD player to my video capture card and capture DVD to a video file? I have a Pinnacle DC10plus video card that has a standard RCA video input jack. I record from my VCR and camcorder all the time but I was wondering if I hooked up my DVD player, would there be a bandwidth problem etc.?

[scott_d]

afaik, it would be the same thing as hooking up a VCR or camcorder. the same jacks all work on a t.v. and what not.

[Xayd]

As long as your capture software can disable macrovision, assuming you're gonna be working with DVDs that have that crap on them.

[brentconn]

I didn't think about macrovision. How can I find out if my card has that ability?

[Xayd]

You'll need another program to use instead of the video card's capture software that has the ability to disable it if it causes a problem.

Dscaler will be able to clean it up a bit, but you might still have some purple lines in the final video.

http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net

[brentconn]

I found this article and it says Pinnacle capture cards are not affected by macrovision

http://www.aluminumstudios.com/digitalvideo/advanced/dvd.html#dvd_capture

[Xayd]

Maybe, but you're looking at anywhere from a hundred to a thousand dollars for even a used Pinnacle capture card.

If all you want are video clips from your DVDs, you're going about it the wrong way ;). Rip the DVD on your PC and extract the audio and video, then edit them, rather than capture the audio and video from an external DVD player.