Power Mac Video Capture card for G5 Quad

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Power Mac Video Capture card for G5 Quad

Can anyone direct me to where I can get a video capture card for my Power Mac G5 Quad.
I would like to directly connect my DVD player to my G5.
Can I do this and what do I need and where can I get it. Thank you for your guidance!

G5 Quad, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 26, 2009 4:32 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 26, 2009 5:59 PM in response to Ray Blair

What's your budget, and what are you looking to do with the video once it's captured?

I'm not sure why you'd need a capture card if the stuff is already on a DVD. You basically just need to extract it from the DVD. And depending on the DVD, you can be in a legal grey area doing this.

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Answer 2

direwolf8

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Feb 27, 2009 10:35 AM in response to Ray Blair

Canto makes a nice firewire video digitizer for under $ 200 that will handle full (non-HD) resolution video. If you already have a mini-dv camera or can find a used one cheap (maybe one where the tape transport is bad) you can connect the camera to your G5 via Firewire, and then use the camera's auxiliary video and audio inputs to connect the source you want to digitize.

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