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How to transfer Amiga video output to pc?
« on: October 24, 2002, 06:44:33 PM »
I'm looking for ways to capture Amiga screenshots, especially from Amiga demos. The question is, how do i do that?

Winuae is good for that but some demos don't run on Winuae so this is not the solution i'm looking for. Good screengrabbers on Amiga are very rare and besides, most demos shut down the OS so this is not an option either.

So the only solution left, seems to get the Amiga image output to the pc with some kind of video card in the pc.

I have seen entire demos captured that way into divx but the image quality suffers in the process. The question is, does the image quality drop when getting the video signal to the pc or is it because of the heavy compression into divx?

I'm totally new to this so has anyone any experience in getting the Amiga output into a pc with a video card. It would be just to capture screenshots, not to capture entire demos. What quality can i expect when the signal arrives on the pc. Is it possible without any noticable drop in quality?

thanks for help.
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Re: How to transfer Amiga video output to pc?
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2002, 09:41:10 PM »
wow, this is getting technical for me  :-o

Who thinks he can achieve perfect/near perfect quality? Is this what i can achieve?Example of original quality screenshots taken with Winuae on pc.

What would be the cost for a complete system?
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