Can I use video cards with capture options to capture movies?
Some video cards can capture avi files, and in real time, with software MPEG codec, compress these files to MPEG. Actually, they are for short, lower quality MPEG clips for amatures, with potentials of frame repeating. If you have a serious MPEG application, with quality expectation set to be as good as VHS tapes, you should look for a hardware MPEG encoder. Try to budget as much as you can on the encoder, this being the determining factor on your video quality.
