Strange capture Probs

[Richta]

I capture from vhs video. I'm using a MSI Geforce ti4200 and the video in, not svhs in. I've installed the detonator 41.09 and the WDM drivers 1.08, I had to switch to the WDM1.08 because of Macrovision Problems... huge white stripe..

I tried capturing with vdub, avi_i_o and virtualVCR. Vdub and avi-io always cut of a few lines at the bottom of the screen. So in the captured file I'm missing this part and that's unacceptable. There's no change if I use other formats.

I heard that you can't use WDM drivers in vitualdub and so I switched to virtualVCR. VirtualVCR gave me a really fine picture capturing at 720*576 to DivX 2500Kb/s but the Audio/Video isn't in sync! There aren't many options to configure, so I checked the box "resample Audio/video dynamically".. but this didn't fix the prob.
I'm missing an option "adjust video to audio clock every 500ms".. or something like that in virtualVCR.

PLZ help!! THX

[chipix]

Hi,

I am having the same problem with a MSI GeForce4 Ti4200-VTS8X card. I am capturing with the PAL system from an analog camera. connected to the Video IN.

I have not yet managed to overcome the problem. I am using Pinnacle Studio 8.3 and VirtualDub 1.4.13 (FYI it can capture using WDM drivers).

Did you manage to overcome the problem using the virtualVCR? How did you manage that?

I am using MSI 41.07 drivers and Nvidia WDM 1.22 Capture drivers. (I also tried Nvidia 41.09 and WDM 1.18 with no success )

If you can find a solution plz let me know (the same applies to me)

[oldfart13]

I don't think Vdub can cap in WDM. It can *sometimes* cap using the VFW for WDM wrapper. I said sometimes because it's never worked on my system. The VdubMod can open Mpegs now but I can't seem to get it to open up in TMPGEnc without a crash, so I've had to discard it as well. Too bad as Vdub has the best filters available when capping from VHS tapes...

[chipix]

You are right about Vdub (sometimes I made it capture using VFW).

However, do you have a hint about the capturing problem?

[Richta]

For me Virtual VCR works fine now.
The problem was the high resolution. Now I'm capturing at 352x288 PAL and no more sync probs..

cya

[chipix]

I glad that you made it work.

However, my problem is not what capture software to use, but a hardware/driver problem. Whatever, software I use (VirtualVCR, Pinnacle Studio 8.3 etc.), the bottom lines of the captured frames are crambled.

I have nt found a solution yet.

[kalyan]

hi richta, those white bars that u mentioned, what are they. how to get rid of them ?

u mentioned switching to older wdm1.08, did that solve the problem and did that cause any performance degradation ?

i use geforce 3 latest detonator and wdm1.19. i am currently capturing at 760x480@29fps & 6500kbps.

i get the white bars only when i am recording something from VCR, and especially when there are noise bars during playback.

bye.