Hardware Based Screen Capture? 17
"What I'm thinking is a pass-through or Y connected external piece of hardware that has some sort of independent storage like a 3.5" floppy or SmartMedia card or something. Ideally, there would just be a button to press on the device that would do a screen capture and save it to the storage medium as a TIFF or similar file. Then there could even be a USB/Serial connection and software for getting the images back off the device at a later time. So does anyone know if this piece of hardware exists? Would this device be enormously complex and prohibitively expensive? Is there any easier/better way to do screen captures in the type of situations I mentioned?"
I think (Score:1)
I know that the military and ny gov't uses this, but I have no idea where you can get it.
Video Capture Cards (Score:2)
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Hardware screen capture device (Score:3)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detai
Re:Video Capture Cards (Score:1)
Also, I have a Diamond Viper V550 with TV out, the problem is that I have to activate the TV out with Diamond's software from Windows.
Capture With Computer (Score:3)
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Another reason to keep that old dot matrix (Score:2)
Re:Another reason to keep that old dot matrix (Score:1)
It would sure be nice if the 'pause' key worked during boot, but I've never seen a board where it would.
Really? I use the Pause key a lot to pause the boot process after SCSI cards detect devices so I can see what was detected before it goes away. I've done this on numerous boards.. ABIT's the only brand name I can recall.
Re:Capture With Computer (Score:2)
Anyway, most video capture boards let you see what you're capturing so you can probably see what the target computer is showing...on the screen of the capturing computer. Of course, you should select a board which lets you see the display in realtime -- if the capture is every 30 seconds and you need to play Doom to capture the desired images then you'll find your Doom character shot between updates...
emulation (Score:1)
the hardware described would be cool, but i havn't seen anything like it. (unfortunately!)
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VMWare (Score:2)
This is exactly one of the uses [vmware.com] VMWare quotes.
Re:Video Capture Cards (Score:2)
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A Follow Up (Score:1)
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