ATI TV Wonder VE HWare limitations and MMC 7.5 compatibility

[TheBald]

Hi,
There are a lot of topics about MMC and TV Wonder from ATI, so it is very hard to find the clear explanation of the following:

1. Does this card has a hardware limit of capturing 240 NTSC horizontal lines or it is a driver issue?

2. Since a lot of users talks that MMC 7.5 is less buggy than 7.1 (which I am currrently using), what is the way to make it working with my TV Wonder VE card?

Thanks a lot for any help!

[Sulik]

1. There is no hardware limit, but a MMC limit (works fine with different capture software).

2. MMC 7.5 was officially released only for the 8500DV, although it will work with most other ATI capture cards (I don't have a TV Wonder, so I can't tell you if there is any problems). You might want to wait for the official release of MMC 7.5 (or 7.6) from ATI that will work with the TV Wonder.

[TheBald]

Thanks.

I tried to capture vith VirtualDub. For horizontal resolutions greater than 240 pixels the driver reports me that "the video format is not supported".
More of this, after using an alien capture program ATI TV refuses to start (hardware initialization problem) and only reboot helps.

It will be great if there is possible to change the horizontal resolution from inside the MMC. I like its "on the fly" MPEG 2 compression future.

[malducci]

I have the same problem. I would like to capture MPEG2 @ 480 vertical lines on the fly. This would save a lot of time since I wouldn't have to resize and re-encode with TMPGEnc. I have the ATI-TV Wonder PCI card and downloaded the MMC 7.5 from stinky.dosrules.com, now I can't choose mpeg as an output. It will only let me select AVI for the output format. The site also has a registry tool for changing/editing your custom profiles. You can enter the exact value of the bitrate instead of using the damn slide bar. NOTE: Do not use the MMC 7.5 reg tool on MMC 7.1. I did this and I could not save or use custome profiles anymore until I uninstalled and reinstalled MMC 7.1

If you can get MMC 7.5 to work with MPEG2 support for encoding, then by all means download the MMC 7.5 registry tool. It supposed to allow for higher than 240 vertical lines and segmentation if you have MMC 7.5 working on your system.

I'm going to try and manually hack my custom profiles from the registry once I get MMC 7.1 up and running correctly with MPEG2 support again.

MMC 7.5 download @ http://stinky.dosrules.com