Videosoap in ATI MMC. Couple of questions

[andrewjameshoward]

I am a newbie and have googled around this and cannot find answers. apologies if it's here and I've missed it.

I have an ATI AIW 9800Pro on an Intel machine in XP Pro. I installed the latest MMC (9.16) and CCC. The Videosoap option wasn't there. I saw one posting saying that Videosoap was applied"automaticly" in MMC 9.16. I wonder how this could be and what the settings would be? Or is it just not there?

I got hold of MMC 9.08 and CCC 6.2 as recommended by posters here. Now Videosoap is available. But not for AVI, only MPEG. Now I understand that if I was encoding to AVI, I would probably do my own filtering instead of using Videosoap. By I don't understand why the option is not available. My understanding is that Videosoap allows the user to apply up to 4 sequential filters to the pre-encoded signal. That this is to reduce noise, making life easier for the encoder and also giving a better-looking end-product. That these filters are essentialy using pixel-shading to do what they do. And that the filtering is applied to the signal after analog to digital conversion but before compression/mpeg-encoding. So why can't this be done when capturing to AVI?

Grateful for input.

[lordsmurf]

VideoSoap isn't applied automatically, it was just removed after ATI MMC 9.0x. The best advice is to always use the drivers and ATI MMC version that came on your installer CD, assuming it was ATI MMC 8.7 or higher on the disc.

The processing may be part of the ATI hardware assist, meaning it's only available in ATI MMC and only available for MPEG encoding. The AVI is intended to be uncompressed, hence inability to filter.