Virtualdub Stopped Working. :cry:

[Mythos2002]

Hello,
Forgive me if this is the wrong section. I've been trying to master Virtualdub to capture from Laserdisc. I dual boot between W2K and XP (both Professional). When I try to capture in XP, it says that the capture device is already in use even though I have no other capture or TV programs running. It used to work in 2000, but it locks up when I try to exist capture mode or try to change the framerate at the bottom from 15 to 29.97. There is no other way to shut it down, but to do a hard shutdown of the PC. The only thing I can figure out is that some codecs I have installed messed it up. I have tried deleting the program and reinstalling it, but it doesn't help.

Here is my specs. I'm using Virtualdub 4.1.1 on an Athlon 1900 XP, Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Motherboard with SPDIF expansion card and built in C-Media audio chip. I also have 512 megs of PC2700 DDR Ram, a Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200 XP650 Golden Sample with VIVO (Video In, Video Out) and 128 megs of DDR. My card is the AGP4x version. Does anyone know what may have happened. I'd hate to have to reformat and reinstall Windows all over again to get this to work. Thanks.

Mythos

[Poplar]

This is what I found in VDub documentation:

"Q: VirtualDub says I don't have a capture device, but I know I have one.

VirtualDub needs a Video for Windows capture driver to capture. Most Firewire (DV) devices do not provide a VFW driver, and thus cannot be used by VirtualDub at all. Also, ATI appears to be shipping their current devices with a WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver only; this can be used indirectly by VirtualDub through a Microsoft wrapper, but it is crippled in functionality and it also appears that the wrapper is buggy.

The wrapper will show up as "Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)." If it works for you, great. "


Maybe it has something to do with your problem. Or you should try some other capture software, VirtualVCR, AVI_IO......

[oldfart13]

From seeing problems with other capture boards and such, it might be the on board sound chip. Try to disable it and use a standard soundcard. Also, try to find the VFW for WDM wrapper. It should be on this site or at Doom9. Unfortunately, Virtual Dub is getting a bit long in the tooth with it's VFW only software. Programs like Video Capturix allow almost any drivers to be selected via a pulldown menu. Why VDub can't be rewritten to do the same I do not know...