Good enough for capture?

MyST wrote on 5/22/2004, 4:28 AM

I bought an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard to go with my Athlon XP 2800+.

I noticed the IEEE 1394 device is a Realtek PHY 8801B with Two 1394 Ports.
Should this be good enough for quality captures? I see alot of praise for TI chips.
Do you think I'll need something else?

Forgive the lack of technical jargon...I'm only starting out. I'm still shopping for parts (sound card, hard-drives, etc), so I want to make sure to have all that I need so I don't have to add stuff after everything is put together and sitting at my desk.

Thanks

Mario

Comments

farss wrote on 5/22/2004, 5:14 AM

Just my guess but I think the days of incompatible 1394 chips are long gone. Even if it turns out to be a dud a f/wire card is cheap and easy in install. Last time I was OS I bought a PCMCIA f/wire ard for my laptop which I didn't have with me so we plugged it into sons old IBM laptop. WinXP recognised it, installed and when we plugged in my D8 camera MS Movie Maker spang to life and we did a quick edit in the hotel.
If they keep making things this simple we'll all be out of a job.

DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/22/2004, 5:44 AM

Maybe not entirely on topic here, but I'll chime in on the overall compatibility landscape - I put an Audigy in my main editing box specifically because it did have firewire, and have never had a problem with either the firewire or audio side - not a single dropped frame in about 40 hours of capture nor any A/V out of sync issues. This is a cheap first-gen Audigy, btw.

AudioIvan wrote on 5/22/2004, 6:27 AM

Well, if you use 1394(firewire) that is not capturing, just data transfer.
The actual term is missunderstanded.
You do analog capture.
That mobo is very good, use the ports & enjoy it.
As for the sound card go for SB Audigy ZS PRO.
You can even do stereo-->5.1 upmixing in realtime(playing/recording) and all done with DTS certified hardware.

AudioIvan