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Raw capture is more or less the go to method today, and then post process into your favored format, like h.264 after. Everything after that has focused on HDMI capture or downloading the raw digital streams to a file.

The zone in which h.264 analog capture was viable was around 2010 through 2012, 2013 at the outside and then it was gone.

This is very rare and pops up and goes for high prices very fast on auction sites. Again capture requires using the hardware vendors capture application. OSX - The Elgato EyeTV HD PVR is the h.264 equivalent. but they are convoluted and difficult to use. Standalone high end capture products were and are available. Microsoft never made anything to support H.264 capture (only playback) and no one else was remotely interested in supporting a dying capture method. But you have to use the Hauppauge or AverMedia capture applications that come with the hardware. But outside of Canada, the AverMedia USB HD DVR is very hard to find even used. which makes it fairly independent and stable during capture. I my opinion the AverMedia USB HD DVR is superior, it uses a custom Fujitsu ARM processor for coached capture. So basically what your looking for is no longer available new, they stopped making them in 2013. After the analog h.264 capture devices were (done, and no longer made) signals all went digital and mostly h.264 was no longer required, the raw digital signal was already h.264 encoded. H.264 is usually used for higher resolution 720p or 1080p 30/60 and higher HDTV signal capture.

The only two brands I am aware of are the Hauppauge HD PVR or Hauppauge Colossus I or Hauppauge Colossus II cards. Windows - h.264 hardware codecs are beyond Windows Media Center ( WMC) so you should expect a private label capture application married to the hardware device. You didn't say your preferred PC platform, Windows or OSX.

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