Capture Cards: PDI Deluxe vs Snazzi V DVD Pro

[Revgen]

The card is only bundled with Dscaler. No capping apps are provided. Heck I just downloaded the latest Dscaler beta and didn't even use theirs.

You'll just have to do BTWincap driver installation and VirtualDub capping on your own with no support from Pixelmagic.

As far as other cards are concerned. You have to make sure that you have VFW drivers that VirtualDub can use. I was fortunate that the PDI Deluxe is a BT8x8 chipset that has tons of third-party driver support.

[squid_80]

Originally Posted by Revgen

As far as other cards are concerned. You have to make sure that you have VFW drivers that VirtualDub can use.

You mean WDM drivers. VFW sucks for capture.

[Revgen]

Originally Posted by squid_80

You mean WDM drivers. VFW sucks for capture.

Does VDub support WDM? Are BTWincap drivers WDM?

If so, then my mistake.

[squid_80]

Yep, WDM/Directshow is supported since v1.6.2 (Released Dec 12/04).

[squid_80]

Edited post with new URL below, in case anyone still needs this:

Originally Posted by squid_80

If you've still got the card, I made a new plugin for you to try: http://digitalfoundry.org/andrew/avisource_cxf2.dll

Load it into the avisynth script (or just put it in the auto-load directory) and it will replace avisynth's internal avisource command with it's own version which can handle your CXF2 files. It should still be able to load all regular avi files as well, so you can just use avisource() all the time rather than treating cxf2 files differently. It definitely works ok with 720x480 and 640x480 but I'm not sure how it will go with other resolutions.

[seggitek]

Yeah, thanks. Hauppauge WinTV application crashes all the time. With your DLL I can open my captured video.

Capture device: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2
Settings: 25fps (PAL) with 720x576

Your DLL is working perfectly. Awesome.

[royia]

Which USB VHS Recorder is recommended?
I'm looking for a one which is Windows 7 (64 and 32) compatible (WDM Drivers).

Something that won't drop frames and work with Virtual DUB.
Thanks.

[rogerdpack]

Originally Posted by squid_80

I just figured out how to get chroma working - it's packed, transposed and then the (packed!) planes are swapped.

Download the new .dll from the same location and see how it goes. The big upside of this is you should be able to run avisynth deinterlacers on the original YV12 captured data rather than the (wrongly converted) YUY2 output of the directshow decoder.

(sorry to resurrect but this is the closest to a working discussion of CXF2 I could find anywhere on the 'net...) would it be possible to see the source for the decoder? I would like to add something like it to FFmpeg thank you!