DVB card for Windows... Connecting XBOX and VHS?

Hello!

I have a friend who uses Windows and would like to get a TV card. He has stronger computer (at least > 1GHz) and a LCD monitor.

He wants to use the computer as a normal desktop and also do these things:

- Connect the XBOX to the LCD monitor
- Connect his old VHS recorder to the computer and digitalize old tapes
- and of course watch DVB-s on his LCD

Regarding the XBOX:

I don't think one can directly connect the XBOX to an LCD monitor, right? So he would have to connect the XBOX to the computer? Is this possible.

Regarding VHS:

Should be no problem to do this. It'd be good if he had a dvb card with a mpeg2 encoder so his computer wouldn't have to encode. Is there such a card? I think the Hauppauge PVR has a mpeg2 encoder but is for analog TV only.

Any input highly appreciated!

Thank you

micmac

*knock knock*

Thanks for your reply!

How about using the graphics card for this? Let's say you got a graphics card with video in (say s-video). For sure you can grab the stream and encode it to another format in software.
Could you also display the stream (whatever it is, be it xbox video or an old vhs vid) on your monitor in fullscreen? If that's the case what software would you use?

Thank you

Sebastian

Thank you deus!

We're gonna give it a whirl. I'm not sure if he actually has a vid in in his gfx card, but it may be worth buying one then.

Cheers

micmac