Leadtek Audio Driver Stopped Working!

[Angelus]

I recently made 3 captures this week with the Leadtek XP 2000 deluxe card and I was going to begin processing them today when I noticed that none of the encodes have sound at all. I did about 4 last week and they all had sound with them. So I looked under the "Audio Capture" part of the Winfast Card in Device Manager and it said no drivers have been installed for the device. So I tried un-installing the card, rebooted, then reinstalled it and after it was finished installing looked at "Audio Capture" part in device manager again and it still said that no drivers were installed for the device. I then tried installing the BtwinCap drivers but that doesn't give me any video or audio.

Does any1 have any ideas about how I can fix this? It seems weird that all the sudden the audio driver would become corrupt (since captures were fine last week) and now I can't re-install the audio one anymore! Thanks

Edit: Only two channels have audio after I do channel scanning...channel 4 and 5. Weird...

[vaxis]

I'm sorry if you're hoping for an answer from me, because I haven't got one. The reason why I reply is that I want to ask you a couple of questions. First of all, are you satisfied with the picture quality of the card? Also, when you're capturing, what is the highest resolution possible? And finally, can you manually choose which codec to use for the capture?

I ask this because I'm planning to buy this card...

[Angelus]

It's a really great card for the price ($49 at NewEgg.com). This is my first such card that I've tried but it seems that its more about the quality of my crappy comcast cable than my capture card. I cap at reg. NTSC 720x480 b/c i use the factory drivers. And I use VirtualVcr as a capturing program b/c its the best I think anyways WDM capture proggie out there. (and you can chose any capture codec you want in that program).

On another note, still no progress on getting my cap. card to work. Tried the BTwinCap drivers, only got a blue screen when trying to use it and now I'm trying the Iulab drivers :D actually more like this ->> :angry: And I love the leadtek web site when you click on the link for tech. support, there is no link. Thanks Leadtek!

[vaxis]

thanks for your opinion. Do you have a short video sequence to share that is showing the quality you're getting? I know you said that you have a crappy cable and so, but it would be nice to get a rough picture of the quality.

[Angelus]

Here's my website that I just set up, it should work. It's from Playmakers on ESPN, no noise filters used at all, only encoded with DivX .

http://home.comcast.net/~angeles6116/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-1080061.html

P.S. I got the Iulab drivers to work with the video, but I can't still figure out the audio. In the device manager for the audio portion of the iulabs driver, it still says that no driver has been installed! Maybe there is something wrong with my system, not the drivers. I love the message it gives, "The device isn't using any resources because it has a problem." Too bad it doesn't tell you what that problem is.

[Owen]

Check that the card you get is based on the new Conexant CX2388x chip not the old BT8x8 chip.

I have The Leadtek TV2000XP Expert and it uses the CX2388x
The TV2000XP Deluxe uses the old BT878 and should be avoided.

Other cards I own are:

MSI TV@nywhere CX2388x chip.
FlyVideo3000 Phillips chip.
Several BT8x8 based cards.

For PAL capture the CX2388x cards win hands down.
They are both sharp and have good color.

The Fly (Phillips)is soft with good color.

And the BT8x8 cards are sharp and with poor color.

None of these cards has sound capture hardware on board.
Sound is captured with your sound card.


Owen

[Angelus]

I finally got the sound back with my captures..although I don't know exactly how I did it. I tried re-installing the driver and apps that came with the card 2 or 3 times and finally it started working. It is weird tho that the Sound Capture drive from Winfast still says that no driver is installed for it, but it works.

I do disagree with Owen tho. It is true that the sound is capture from the sound card, but the sound has to be processed from the capture card and sent to the sound card, and I think my driver for the sound was messed up, and that's why it didn't work. I tried the MSI TV@anywhere card but couldn't get it to run on my system so I sold it.

[jggimi]

...but the sound has to be processed from the capture card and sent to the sound card...That's certainly true for the tuner, since the sound is generated within the card. For other analog video connections, AFAIK the sound is merely passed through, and having the patch cord is a connection convenience.

[vaxis]

Thanks for the tips Owen! The reason why I want info about XP2000 Deluxe is that an internetstore here in Sweden have it for a cheap price. But I will consider your point about CX2388x...

[Chosen One]

The reason you only get a blue screen in the BTWinCap drivers, is cos the pos defaults to the AV-input or whatever it is, not the Tuner for capture.

I have the same card as you, and the quality with the BTWinCap drivers is shit. No idea what is causing it, cos its fine with the iulab drivers, and the factory ones, just BTWinCap.

I cant get sound on Iulab drivers either. Prob just not compatible with the Leadtek. Oh well, gonna get a DVB card once there is a decent range here in Aus anyway.

[Shayne]

http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/

I have this card for a over a year and it has always worked fine.

Never used their drivers but this is what i have done.

1) Installed the above drivers.

2) Plug audio into sound card and s-video into leadtek

3) Point Vdubsync to s video , set audio card record to line in

4) huffy codec .............

should be full proof

Hope it helps

Peace