Asus V8200

[zappernl]

I am a very unhappy with my ASUS 8200 Deluxe video capture quality. The video looks great except for scenes with any white color displayed. White scenes looking horribly saturated, washed out and are lacking detail. I have tried the retail drivers, updated ASUS drivers and of course the Nvidia reference drivers all with the same results. I can’t believe the fact that I spent over $400 for this card and the quality of video captures look so horrible.

I am not the only one with problems; I have posted the same question on different boards and found many others are also experiencing the same problems with HEAVILY over saturated white scenes. I have owned this card for 6 months now and have yet to capture a single clip worth saving. To me the card is absolutely useless as a capture device…

PLEASE if anyone has a fix for this problem I would greatly appreciate a response

[danofborg]

I had/have the same problem w/my v8200. I think its the driver not getting updated so i just bought a hauppage wintv go card for $20 on black friday and it works great! It normally retails for 40 bucks so its the fastest, easiest solution i found after 2 weeks of tweeking asus's drivers and trying other drivers and more software settings than i care to remember. Save yourself the time and hassle and just buy a card thats made for what you want to do.

Dan.

[zappernl]

Thanks danofborg for replying, but in the meantime I have solved the issue:

After some more investigations I found out that the sensitivity of the video input is too high. Normal spec of a video signal is about 1Vpp. The V8200 has much less than this 1V, by making a simple power divider using 2 simple resistors (a 50 cents solution) the 1Vpp is transformed to a lower level. If you feed this to the card it will present the colours in a much better way. Because I do not know the exact input sensitivity of the Video input I can not calculate the exact resistor values, you have to experiment, I used 2 100 Ohm resistors and the image is near perfect!

A very stupid hardware mistake on this expensive card!

I finally were able to capture some footage in good quality and I have done some editing already. Works great.