MMC will not capture - HELP

[GLADIATOR 2002]

Hi

I have tried capturing in windows 98SE and in XP with an AIW Radeon 32MB card. What happens is that MMC only captures about 10-40Kbps of data, no picture just sound. I can see the counter incrementing on MMC. When I stop the capture, I dont get the option to save as.... or anything. All files I capture are only the above file size. I am not able to capture in VirtualDub even when using the wrapper. I cannot capture using Ulead, it says that it cannot create a graph or something. I have tried all copies of MMC and other capture programs without any success. File System is Fat32 on XP Home edition. Have removed MMC and all ATI drivers completely and re-installed and still no good. I cannot capture still images either. MMC continues to hang up after I push the stop capturing button, try to kill it and it just stays there, have to re-boot. Have formatted 3 or 4 times on my disk and still no good. Am I missing something that I should have with MMC or something?

[mrtristan]

ATI's software is crap. I've been experimenting for two years, with all versions of their drivers and software and I still haven't found a combination that works properly.

Some people can get it to run. I'm not one of those few.

ATI's newest display and capture drivers seem to be pretty decent. They still won't work in conjunction with any versions of their MMC software, though. (On my PC, that is)

I've experienced very similar problems to yours and my suggestion is to first do a clean OS install. I would nix one OS and not opt for the dual boot. If you go with WinXP, then you should use the NTFS file system.

From there, install Windows, motherboard drivers (the newest ones are usually the fastest and most stable), then the ATI drivers.

When you install the ATI drivers, don't reboot between the installation of the display and capture drivers. After you've installed both, then reboot.

Install the Virtualdub wrapper again and give it another try.

I can guarantee you that your problems are driver related. Sometimes a clean OS install is the easiest way to go.