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booji
12th March 2004, 17:59
XP2600, 512DDR , ATI 9600XP, Gigabyte GGA-7N400 Pro2 M/Board
Pinnacle PCTV


I've been using Vdub VCR sucessfully under Win98. Could capture at 720*576 with either pic video or Huffy UV. Converted to DIVX if needed using Gnot. I decided to go down the Win2000 O/S but I've now got a few problems with caturing now so please give me some advise.

Win2000 with SR4 has a VFW to WDM wrapper (I only assume since Vdub VCR Worked) so not problems there. The capture at 720*576 YUV2 seemed like it had swapped field appearence. This was not the case however since swapping the fields after in vbub made no diiference to the quality. I was using the old Pinnacle 402a drivers so I thought about upgrading, so I tried both 511 and 550 drivers but they were even worse since they would not let me capture above 352*288 since anything else gives an "error 418 unsupported video format".


So now I'm stuck with Win2000 and have all my drives converted to NTFS. I Don't want to go backwards so does anyone know how to fix this? A WDM driver thats works would be helpfull, recommedations for Vdub alternatives?


:confused:

BruceL
13th March 2004, 17:01
Did you do an upgrade from Win98 to Win2K or a clean install?

booji
14th March 2004, 16:13
I had a clean install. I've found some drivers that work now (BTwincap). Seems to work fine now although PCTV doesn't work with these drivers but I can live with that since Dscaler is better. Thanks for a reply though.