AIW 128 Pro, MMC 7.5 and TV

[Romper]

I have the above card and software...

Previously used 7.1 and 7.2 and had no problems with the ATI TV app., recently uninstalled 7.2 and installed new 7.5. The problem is that I cannot get the TV app to work, it is not on the Launch Pad and when I go Start, Programs etc.. and click on TV my machine has a quick think and then does nothing. There were no errors installing and as I said, TV worked fine in previous versions.

I can open up VDub and capture that way, which is the way I was planning on capturing, but would like the TV function to work.

Also, I recall that with 7.5 you could cap at XXX x 576 (480) - I'm a PAL person, but I still cannot get above XXX x 288 (240).

The machine is a PIII 550, but is irrelevent as I will be upgrading to an XP Athlon machine, once I iron out the bugs. I do have DirectX 8.1 installed and am running Win98 SE.

Forum search is down so I couldn't search first.

Any help appreciated.

Romper

[Romper]

No help?

[energy80s]

The same thing happened to me whenever I tried to run MMC7.5. I could find no solution for it and had to uninstall it and re-install 7.2 - its the only one that seems to work with the ATO AIW 128 Pro cards. Remember that 7.5 is meant for the Radeon range.

[Romper]

As I thought.....

Just tried with a fresh build of Win2k, but that was no go either.

Oh well, back to 7.2.......

Thanks anyway.

[gsashok]

I can help you.
Follow the steps

1. Goto Control Panel and click on MMC
2. Click on second tab. You can see Driver with "No Driver" selected
3. Choose ATI then click on apply
4. Run your ATI TV application
5. Be patient. It may take 1 to 2 mins to bring up TV
( I hate to see in my system). I have this problem and trying
to find the solution

You are set.

[maxxnostra]

I also have PCI version of AIW128 Pro. Installed MMC7.5 with hope that it does have updated MPEG-Capture driver and hope for better quality with it. MMC 7.x prior to 7.5 were no good at MPEG-2 capture . TV Application also never worked for me. In Virtual(nano)Dub it works because I can access TV tuner properies and initalize correct channel or switch input. In Ulead Movie Factory I could noit get proper TV tuner settings. After testing it with VirtualDub I found no difference at all from previous versions. So I just unistalled it and returned back to 7.2 on my WinXP platform. This version was optimezed for Radeon chipsets which have True DV Capture and some better handling of video buffers when capturing (produces slightly better MPEG quality capture on 720x4xx captures but still lots of droped frames). Few days ago I was so hot to go and by hardware based MPEG Capture card ( for not more then 500$) hoping that i would be able to do good quality capture. But I canged my mind and got new 80Gig hdd which enables me to store capture (about 1 hour) of 720x480 29.97 AVI (Huffyuv best settings) without dropped frames. It takes additional 4 hr to encode this file into MPEG2 (LSX-MPEG Encoder) or 3 hr in Ulead Movie Factory (worst quality - no to much settings choices for MPEG2 compression), or 5 hr in TMPEG (best quality) on Athlon 1600+ XP (512 DDRam). I am happy with video quality. Looks like professional quality DVD but I had to reduce frame rate to 3000 to fit 2 hr of DVD on one 4.7 DVD-R(W).
My sugesstion to everyone is to buy good HDD capture in AVI then overnight while you sleep make the high quality MPEG-2 DVD movie. Saved myself a lots of bucks by not buying hardware based MPEG compression card.

[energy80s]

Only 2 things wrong with that reply ....

Firstly, we have AIW 128 Pro cards, not Radeons, and secondly, we are making VCD's and not DVD's.

Other than that it was perfect!!!!!

[ruffustroll]

Did you try Ati's Beta driver-98me-656-010620b ? This is the only
driver thats worked for me thus far with win98se ,AIW 128 pro 16MB pci,
and mmc 7.5.
Can no longer capture with virtual dub, but mmc is quite nice for saving
disk space and does get around copy protection.


Ruufus