Can't save virtualdub1.6.10 capture settings with Pinnacle PCTV Pro

[leonafan]

Hi I have this Pinnacle pctv pro card and I'm using Pinnacle's own wdm drivers. I've tried the drivers from http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ as well but they don't solve my problems also. I'm using virtualdub1.6.10.

Firstly there is no way for me to save my settings after I set them. The preferences option is greyed out.

Then the next problem i have is that there is no horizontal reduction. Ticker tape stuff across CNN turns out blury.

Is there anyway I can solve this problem? Because I want to tape stuff directly thru the VVCR scheduler.

Thanks for helping me I am quite ready to dump this card since I had it in 31st dec 2002. Seeing that there are better stereo cards with hardware encoding avaliable out there.

[ppera2]

Version 1.6.10 has autosave of settings. Some specific settings you can save in menu point Device.

Horizontal reduction? I din't see it in any V Dub. Do you mean vertical reduction?

I have same card, and V Dub 1.6x captures very well with original Pinnacle drivers. But only in directshow mode. WDM mode still has limitations - vert. res is max. 288 lines.
So, use directshow mode & :readguid: (help of V Dub).

[leonafan]

hi er what is this directshow mode? I only followed the guide on doom9 so I thought it had horizontal reduction mode also.

do you think you can point me to the correct guide? The guide I was following was this one

http://www.doom9.org/capture/capturing_vdub.html

[ppera2]

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do you think you can point me to the correct guide? ...

There is no specific guide for new V Dub 1.6.10. Therefore read help of V Dub, as I said in brackets.

[fccHandler]

2:1 horizontal reduction is only in VirtualDub-MPEG2 (http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable).