MMC 8.8 or 8.7

[Manokat]

Which one you all use?

I found 8.8 to be darker and more gainy on TV and capture video playback - tested on both AIW Radeon and AIW 128PRO.

[neomaine]

I'd have to point you to 8.7 with my experience. The latest Catalyst and MMC 8.8 threw the audio out of sync (mp2) by a second or so.

Uninstalled the Cat. driver and MMC 8.8 and reinstalled the previous Catylst and MMC 8.7 and all was fine. No back to perfect sync and clean captures.

[bottle-necked]

I have not noticed any problems with the new Cat, but 8.8 gave me problems. My MPEG1&2 captures were ok but it sure made my AVI framerate unstable. Capturing AVI with MMC would never give me the exact framerate 2 times in a row. (?) Strange to say the least.

I find MMC 8.5 to be my most stable for AVI framerate captures with MMC. It's always 29.970 everytime. My other capture programs don't seem to mind which version MMC I have installed. They don't seem to suffer from this framerate problem like MMC does. I don't have an explination except that maybe ATI MMC actually sucks!!!! lol

As for TV picture and capture quality I don't see any difference.

Good luck.

[non-linear]

I've stuck with 8.5 ever since the fiasco I had with 8.6 (kept dropping frames). I don't trust any version past 8.5.

[lordsmurf]

8.8 seems to have a lot of problems.

[FOO]

I have hell almost every time I change. The last time I did
did a format C: and installed 8.8 first . I don't notice any difference
from 8.5 except the probablility of missing a scheduled capture
has apparently gone down. I still don't trust it.