Playing with videos on personal computer can really be a great fun.  With hardware video, you can send out video e mail, save some precious moments, edit own mini compositions and share with friends and family. The past decade has seen a bang of innovative and relatively economical options for shooting videos on your personal computer. They range from reasonably priced desktop camera equipments that take smaller clips for under one hundred dollars, to external capture-boxes for around two hundred dollars, to high-end capture board that can manage full size, full rate videos for up to one thousand dollar.

With personal computer, you can have plenty of options within mentioned range; this is true especially because computers have several ways to plug-in additional equipments, and now-a-days, there is a ‘video capture’ solution for nearly any of them.  The major hardware video options may include all those different sized connectors on back of pc box (USB and parallel), SCSI, Firewire, plug in PCI boards, and laptop pc cards.

What is appropriate for you depends largely on many factors:

  • What you wish to do with video (do professional editing or produce smaller web clips)
  • How and why you wish to use videos (shooting holiday scenes with camcorder, or video-conferencing at desktop)
    Depending upon what one wishes to do with videos on his personal computer, he may choose to buy a video product, designed especially for video-conferencing (along with bundled communication-software) and TV viewing with radio and TV tuners.

Video Camera

The most important decision for playing videos on your personal computer is what type of camera you wish to make use of. If you are more fascinated toward the idea of video-conferencing or recording video-clips of the materials around desktop, the solution is to purchase a ‘digital desktop camera’ that directly plugs into your computer.  These cameras often combine video hardware and camera image into one digital unit, which is why they are expensive and small.

USB and Parallel Desktop Cameras

In order to get videos into system, you require connecting-up some plumbing. An option, for both laptops and desktop computer systems, is to plug-in to any open ports at the back of computer.

External Video Adapter

If you wish to record videos of outer world from the camcorder, not from dedicated laptop camera, then, you still can make use of USB and parallel ports to transfer videos into the pc. You can just plug-in an ‘analog video cable’ from camcorder and capture or view analog videos.

 Video Compression Hardware

Due to the limitations of USB and parallel pipes, some adapters and video cameras have in-built ‘compression hardware’ with custom compression-algorithm.

Firewire DV Camera

Fireware is the newest interface for personal computers, and is designed specifically for the need of DV camera, with data-rates of ’12 to 25, to 50 MB per sec’ in first versions. Connecting a digital video camcorder to pc requires PCI adapter, but Firewire or IEEE 1394 is beginning to be put into computer, designed for video/audio use from reputed companies.

So, select your hardware video option and have fun with playing videos on your pc.

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