Power VCR II Version 3

[steenbok]

Is there anybody who has the answer for this problem yet?

[LanceSteel]

This is kind of a weird program. I couldn't get it to work with my STB TV Pci's VxD drivers under Win98se. After installing generic bt8x8 WDM drivers I was able to get it to work. Virtualdub seem'd to not like the WDM drivers so I switched back the old VxD drivers. After I did that then PowerVCR started working (or should I say partially working) with the VxD drivers. It seems that this program is VERY picky about hardware and drivers. Anyway, try fooling around with the drivers.

[steenbok]

You mean the drivers for your video card? should i use the nvidia ref drivers instead of my asus drivers?
what do the wdm drivers have to do with the sound, the sound is captured by my sb128pci?

[LanceSteel]

"You mean the drivers for your video card? should i use the nvidia ref drivers instead of my asus drivers?"

No. I mean the drivers for the capture/tv card. With my card I have the option of using two different drivers, the drivers made by STB in '98 and the generic WDM drivers that can be found here: http://iubt8x8.ivus.tele-kom.ru

"what do the wdm drivers have to do with the sound, the sound is captured by my sb128pci?"

I don't think the WDM drivers have to do anything with the sound. I was just giving an account of what worked for me. Is your sound card on its own IRQ? Is you capture board for that matter? To be honest, PowerVCR II isn't that good. It seems to work best if you are doing high bitrate caps like 2400 or greater. Like I said before this program is really flakey.

[DJToy]

I have full version Power VCR...Let me know if you need it.

[steenbok]

i do have the full version and the trial , no difference. I also have Winvcr 2.5 plus, sound and video work perfect with the same settings, drivers as powercvr II 3.0. So i dont believe it's my system but a bug in Powervcr. I prefer Powervcr because it takes less time to create mpeg and the quality is rather good. Winvcr is a bit limited in the options and tends to crash with higher resolutions than 352-288. Anyhow, nobody seems to have the solution so I think i'll concentrate on virtualdub and tmpgenc....

[steenbok]

keeping the topic alive,

anybody with solutions?

[judicator]

don`t use powervcr it sucks
you winvcr or make your own
mpeg1/2 realtime compressor with graphedit

[El_Mero_Zooter]

before i reformatted, i could capture from tv, analog-composite, and now after da reformat, it wont go, (only played wit it a bit b4 coming to work...)
will try later,,,n report back,

keepin da topic alive,,,

[jamieo]

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On 2001-07-05 05:02:41, judicator wrote:
make your own
mpeg1/2 realtime compressor with graphedit
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Now that's interesting - have you had much success with this?

jamieo

[El_Mero_Zooter]

jam,
yeah, once i setup my profiles, (diff bit rates, audio settz,,etc) it was great. I capped off a vhs movie full res mpg2, 2hrs 5 min, no probz, tv shows etc,,,

this time around i tried cappin off s-video so dat's maybe the audio prob (vid from s-video, audio from cable tv) i was having,,
ZtR

[jamieo]

cool, any extra info you can provide would be appreciated.