"Karl Denninger" wrote in message
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In article ,
Mark wrote:
Even USB 2.0 is too slow,

No. USB 2.0 is 480Mbit/s while the FireWire bus,

Well, USB 1.0 is too slow, full screen was kinda blocky and bad sound
sync.

USB 2.0 is not.

I have the Happauge external USB 2.0 box and it works fine. Produces MPEG
video at data rates up to 12Mbps, which is a bit better than DVD specs.
It
can also "data rate match" directly to DVD in three different quality
levels, which is very nice if you want to burn copies of things you record
with it.

The internal MPEG chip in it is not as good as Vegas is as a "software
only" solution but it rocks in terms of CPU overhead - like near zero
during use, so you can record something while doing other things with the
computer.

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I have used a Hauppage USB TV interface on a P3 notebook, with a USB1 port
running XPPro for several years it works just fine