jmac698
16th February 2006, 17:17
Hi,
this hasn't been discussed for 3 years :) But I still use and need my hp+/dxr3. They never released directshow drivers, it worked with MCI. But, there are two ways to get directshow: one is a filter someone wrote, hpds.ax, the other way is to take some parts of the netstream2000 or xcard driver.
The problem with solution #1 is that I have to autocalibrate each time I open the filter or it doesn't work (dark green screen, no picture anywhere). Otherwise it would work great.
The problem with #2 is I never got it working yet. This is how far I got:
unzip N2K_2_5XP1.zip (driver disk 1 for netstream2000)
run CMD.exe (start a command prompt)
cd c:\N2K_2_5XP1
expand rmmpeg2.ax_ rmmpeg2.ax
expand crmmem.ax_ crmmem.ax
copy rmmpeg2.ax %SystemRoot%\system32\
copy crmmem.ax %SystemRoot%\system32\
regsvr32 /s rmmpeg2.ax
regsvr32 /s crmmem.ax
Now rmmpeg2.ax will show in a directshow filters list as
"Sigma Designs MPEG-2 hardware decoder".
If the crmmem.ax file is not used, you will get a "cannot start filter, out of memory" type of error.
Now I can use graphedit to connect pins and so on, but when I play the graph, graphedit just crashes.
I suspect some other files need to be extracted and/or registered.
If anyone knows which ones they are it would save me a lot of experimenting. I can only guess how to experiment from reading the .inf file.
Btw, I think these are the first instructions of their kind available on the internet (I certainly couldn't find anything else).
Btw, there is a good free transport stream compatible mpeg splitter in that driver set, rmsplit.ax. It lets you select the program/channel in the filter properties. Could be useful!
this hasn't been discussed for 3 years :) But I still use and need my hp+/dxr3. They never released directshow drivers, it worked with MCI. But, there are two ways to get directshow: one is a filter someone wrote, hpds.ax, the other way is to take some parts of the netstream2000 or xcard driver.
The problem with solution #1 is that I have to autocalibrate each time I open the filter or it doesn't work (dark green screen, no picture anywhere). Otherwise it would work great.
The problem with #2 is I never got it working yet. This is how far I got:
unzip N2K_2_5XP1.zip (driver disk 1 for netstream2000)
run CMD.exe (start a command prompt)
cd c:\N2K_2_5XP1
expand rmmpeg2.ax_ rmmpeg2.ax
expand crmmem.ax_ crmmem.ax
copy rmmpeg2.ax %SystemRoot%\system32\
copy crmmem.ax %SystemRoot%\system32\
regsvr32 /s rmmpeg2.ax
regsvr32 /s crmmem.ax
Now rmmpeg2.ax will show in a directshow filters list as
"Sigma Designs MPEG-2 hardware decoder".
If the crmmem.ax file is not used, you will get a "cannot start filter, out of memory" type of error.
Now I can use graphedit to connect pins and so on, but when I play the graph, graphedit just crashes.
I suspect some other files need to be extracted and/or registered.
If anyone knows which ones they are it would save me a lot of experimenting. I can only guess how to experiment from reading the .inf file.
Btw, I think these are the first instructions of their kind available on the internet (I certainly couldn't find anything else).
Btw, there is a good free transport stream compatible mpeg splitter in that driver set, rmsplit.ax. It lets you select the program/channel in the filter properties. Could be useful!