Answers.Body: <p>Hardware encoders used for best performance, not quality. So, if you don't need realtime, I suggest to use software encoder with many options.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is it better to go with a video capture card with h.264 encoding or just a raw input port? I have powerful pc but not sure best card to use for high quality image, reliability, and ease of install.</p>
  
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Title: PCIe video capture card
UserDisplayName: Chris Hancock
ThreadText: # PCIe video capture card
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-03)
  
  Is it better to go with a video capture card with h.264 encoding or just a raw input port? I have powerful pc but not sure best card to use for high quality image, reliability, and ease of install.
  
  **Tags:** video-capture
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Hardware encoders used for best performance, not quality. So, if you don't need realtime, I suggest to use software encoder with many options.
  
  
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