virtualdub video capture system requirements

[xviddivxoggmp3]

does anybody know the minimum system requirements to capture video directly
i'm running a pretty weak system and was wondering if at all possible
e.g.
vcr~>nvidia tuner card~>virtualdub~>avi

[benderman]

Depends on the capturing-format. With 320x240@10fps you could even use an pc with 100MHz or lower. If you want VCD-quality you should have at least 200MHz and for near-SVCD-quality you should have more than 500MHz. That's the minimum if you use simple codecs like uncompressed/huffyuv/Indeo. For DivX-compression 1GHz or more are usefull.

[xviddivxoggmp3]

that's what i needed

is there possibly a guide to getting started?
i've read a few things here and there
but i lost the page where they talk about it.
so do you know if a normal nvidia tv tuner card works to capture into divx and wm8
thanks for the help
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