Gainward capture cards anyone?

[Coop]

I currently use a Gainward Ti4200 Geforce 4 Golden Sample video card with VIVO for capturing - I'm wondering if anyone is using a newer Gainward card with VIVO. How is it working? Does it utilize a WDM driver compatible chipset? (to get around the white box issue)?

[Coop]

I'd like to redirect my question with a few considerations:

What to upgrade to? I like having the video and capture on one card.

The Ti4200 captures AVI and I've had really good results - 0 frame drops. The downside is a literal day spent in some cases converting to MPEG2.

WDM driver compatibility is a MUST - I don't want to have to deal with workarounds for macrovision again

I know an MPEG2 hardware encoder resolves the conversion time issue - but I've heard that I won't get as high quality captures.

Recommendations? Or do I stick with the Ti4200?

[marvel2020]

Well if you take a look at the Gainward site you can see that they are not bringing of there new cards out as Vivo's which is sad because i also like to have Capture and Graphics in the card.

My Gainward G4 TI 4600 ViVo is now dead, it just stopped working, in fact it won't even powerup, so i'll have to upgrade myself and seeing as none of there G6 6800 GT's or ultras have Vivo i'm going to have to look at other manufactures.