how does one go about upgrading thier video card?

[Canadian 2.5RS]

My ultimate goal is to be able to load videos from my camcorder to my CPU.

How would i go about doing this?

[accordboi_02]

What kind of computer do you have?
Do you have an AGP slot?

Look into purchasing an ATI All-In-Wonder card; I believe that it has all the necessary inputs for what you want to do.

Just make sure that you have an AGP slot, or otherwise see if you can find a PCI version of the AIW.

[Canadian 2.5RS]

I have an hp pavilion 7855.

other than that i have no idea.

[rage2]

If your camcorder is analog, then yes, an All in Wonder, or an addon TV card can capture your video in analog and save in MPEG or MPEG2.

If you have a MiniDV camcorder, get a firewire card, which will allow you to dump the videos onto your hard drive in DV format, which has no quality loss. Then you can compress to MPEG2.

[Canadian 2.5RS]

i believe it is analog. its an old handycam from about 2000.

is this a good card"
"ATI Radeon 8500 All in Wonder 128MB DDR"

how will the videos turn out once downloaded?

[rage2]

How fast is your computer? The quality is really good with the AIW cards, but you need a fast computer to be able to record MPEG2 in realtime. VCD in realtime is easy, pretty much any ghetto computer can do it.

I'll post some of my old AIW cards for sale shortly. I have a shitload of 'em from previous upgrades, everything from AIW 128 to AIW Radeon.

[Canadian 2.5RS]

I still dont know what i need.

the hp website says what came with the computer and how fast it is.

it has a pentium 3
128MB SDRAM but i plan on upgrading this as well


what do you figure i need then.

how do you do VCD? what is it?