ASUS Ti500 Deluxe Capture washed out…

[808state]

I have an ASUS Ti500 that allows S-Vid captures at just about any custom resolution. My problem is the whites on all video content seem to be completely washed out. Bright colorful scenes have what appears to be a professional appearance to them; of course any white scenes that appear ruin that assumption.

I am running the latest reference drivers from Nvidia’s site. I have adjusted video settings using the “Video Essentials” DVD using Vdub with absolutely no luck. Everything looks beautiful except for the horribly washed out looking white scenes, whites are incredibly bright lacking HUGE amounts of detail.

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

[takeru]

this is a rip of taways posting from maxreboot (http://www.maxreboot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=661&start=60&p=10465), and is proven to work.


taway:

I checked and this procedure also resolves the brightness problem under Windows 98SE, but I noticed it didn't add the registry entry automatically. So here's the rev 1.1 instructions for the Asus 8200 Ti 500 Deluxe (with the Philips 7108e chip) under Windows XP Pro or Windows 98SE capturing NTSC:

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1. Fresh install of Windows XP Pro or 98SE (or completely remove all the old video & capture drivers.)
2. Install Nvidia Detonator 23.11, rebooting as necessary.
3. Install Nvidia WDM 1.08, rebooting as necessary.
4. Install capture software (or just use Windows Movie Maker in XP) to test to make sure everything is working so far. I still get a black capture window sometimes but if I reboot it seems to initialize properly and then capture will keep working until I reboot again.
5. Install Video Live WDM from http://www.ab.ru/~lookin/downloads/_downloads22.htm
6. Reboot.
7. Install Video Live Mode from the same URL.
8. Regedit and add or change the DWORD value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VLio\EVIPInit = 0x0
9. Create a shortcut in Startup to point to the livemode.exe installed from step #7 with a target of "E:\Program Files\VLive\LiveMode\LiveMode.exe" reg 3 0x00
(make sure to leave the quotes as above if you are doing a shortcut. Or just make a batch file to run it in whatever drive & directory you installed to with the command: livemode reg 3 0x00 )
10. Reboot and capture with your favorite software with no brightness problem on latest (released) reference drivers!

Note that you are still going to use the Nvidia Universal WDM for capturing. There is no need to install any more Video Live software other than described above.

If you still have the brightness problem ("excessive white saturation" is how I've seen it described elsewhere) you are not running the livemode reg 3 0x00 command properly. You can run it any time after bootup, even while a capture program is running if you want to watch it change the picture. :)

If you want to play around with the manual gain control and many other settings also download the SAA7111A EVIP manager from the Video Live URL. It will run without messing up the picture as long as you did step #8.

Also, remember if you are just getting a black capture window to reboot. I seem to get it every other time I reboot but then rebooting again will fix it.

[808state]

Wow, what a coincidence that you have just replied to my thread today, I have been watching closely for a little help on this one. Anyways I just ordered a [Pinnacle DV-500 Plus] this morning before leaving for work…I was going nuts having a $400 graphics/capture card that I couldn’t use!

I defiantly will give your fix a try and am tremendously grateful for the reply, now I feel as if I didn’t blow hard earned cash on the Asus Ti500 Deluxe. I will be surely retiring the Asus someday to my second machine so it will get some capturing usage I’m sure.

Now I am saying my prayers that my Asus P4T-E Mobo doesn’t give me any BS with the Pinnacle DV-500.

Again, thanks much… I searched high and low for a fix and came up with nothing till now!!!

[Humpa]

takeru, Thanks for posting taway's post from maxreboot ... and thanks to 808state for asking the question .. lol

I have the Ti200 and XP - the brightness issue was really bumming me out.
Now my Humpatronics is working sweet!