Best Software For Analog Video Capture for Vista?

My old Sony Vaio pc finally gave up the ghost. I used to use the GigaPocket
feature to capture video from laserdiscs, vhs tapes and Hi8 camcorder
footage and was fairly happy with that. I've used Sony's Vegas/DVD
Architect and other popular software for editing and so on but on my new pc,
I'm finding my options pretty limited so far for capturing quality analog
video.

I'm working on a HP Pavilion 9040n so-called media center with both front
and back analog a/v in/out factory cards and Windows Vista's my OS. My two
software options for settings, etc for the actual capture of the video is
either Roxio 9 Basic which is frankly clunky and primitive with little
settings/control for import quality or Vista's terrible Media Center
interface which I can't even get to configure and work properly (won't see
the IR sensor as part of the setup process thus preventing setup).

I'm sure there's something out there that'll give me the amount of control
over things like video quality/color/compression during the importing phase
I should expect but thus far, I haven't found an answer. Bear in mind, I
*don't* need any kind of editing software, just importing software that'll
work on my pc with the a/v card ( Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 ) under Vista's
OS.

Thanks in advance,

T.B.

"T.B." <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:476722f4$0$1414$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> My old Sony Vaio pc finally gave up the ghost. I used to use the
> GigaPocket feature to capture video from laserdiscs, vhs tapes and Hi8
> camcorder footage and was fairly happy with that. I've used Sony's
> Vegas/DVD Architect and other popular software for editing and so on but
> on my new pc, I'm finding my options pretty limited so far for capturing
> quality analog video.
>
> I'm working on a HP Pavilion 9040n so-called media center with both front
> and back analog a/v in/out factory cards and Windows Vista's my OS. My
> two software options for settings, etc for the actual capture of the video
> is either Roxio 9 Basic which is frankly clunky and primitive with little
> settings/control for import quality or Vista's terrible Media Center
> interface which I can't even get to configure and work properly (won't see
> the IR sensor as part of the setup process thus preventing setup).
>
> I'm sure there's something out there that'll give me the amount of control
> over things like video quality/color/compression during the importing
> phase I should expect but thus far, I haven't found an answer. Bear in
> mind, I *don't* need any kind of editing software, just importing software
> that'll work on my pc with the a/v card ( Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 ) under
> Vista's OS.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> T.B.

You are running Vista, this is an XP forum.
Try:
http://www.videohelp.com/