scott wrote:
>> Heh. I'm guessing the tuner card is pretty damned expensive though. ;-)
> 
> You can pick up USB tuners for under 20 GBP now.  I doubt internal PCI 
> ones are much more for basic functionality.

Mmm, OK.

Pitty there's never anything good on TV anymore, eh? I could have a TV 
in my bedroom if I wanted...

>> (There are programs which are supposed to record what's on your 
>> screen, but none of them actually work.)
> 
> FRAPS is pretty much the standard for 3D content (games, 3D software, 
> the Vista desktop!) and IME works well so long as you have enough CPU 
> power spare to stream the video to disk - I think it lightly compresses 
> it (losslessly IIRC) before writing, but you certainly want to 
> recompress it later to a standard format that takes less space.

It also costs money.

GameCam is supposed to do the same thing also, except that it doesn't 
work. (You press record, and nothing happens.)

>> I have no idea what kind of equipment you need to record a DVI signal 
>> though...
> 
> Given that my fairly recent PC can compress a 1920x1080 signal to h264 
> about 4x slower than realtime, I suspect you are talking about some 
> serious broadcast-quality kit to do that job at desktop resolutions and 
> frame rates.

Hmm, yes...

> Just point a video camera at the monitor :-)

Now why didn't I think of this? Heh. I even *have* a camera...

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