ati all-in-wonder radeon 7500 - flickering etc

[Wolfie!]

I just recieved a new ati which was a cast-off from a friend
in the US who just updated.

There are a few issues that I'm having with the card.

Fistly, there is no tv setting for australia or any country using
PAL [other than argentina and brazil?]. the card is supposed
to do PAL but I have tried ever version of PAL listed and none
made the tuner do anything much. [yeah I'm in Australia].

Secondly, I can get a picture out of my VCR where I want to
take my captures from... but the playback flickers... specifically
the picture keeps going light and dark.
if the picture is live TV, it's fine.
*note I can get a picture from the VCR AV out... only!
using roxio videowave5 for this.

Thirdly... yes here it comes, the sound goes horribly out
of sync in the first 30 seconds of recording.
I have tried those sound sync programs mentioned on this
page before, but I couldn't actually get any result out of them.
and it's a hassle... does anyone actually want to sit there
buggering around with audio? you don't do it with VHS tape
after recording a tv show, why should you when recording on
the computer?

feeling very frustrated here. what I'd like to do is buy a card
that was specifically made for PAL that I can get as near to
DVD quality with... must be analogue! and a real no-fuss card.
I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to the
right one to get.

I'm hoping to transfer old VHS to DVD-R in the near future,
and tape of my family filmed on Hi-8 tape.

Thanks.

Wolfie!

[Ron B]

Hello there-It sounds like you have a NTSC card. You may have to flash the BIOS or something to get it to work. I don't know how to solve your problem, but when I have problems with my AIW 7500, I check rage3d.com

[Fubonis]

1.) I'm in the US and use a 7500 as well. It has PAL settings on mine (I haven't explored it much, since my TV/VCR output an NTSC signal, using PAL just creates some garbage pixels; I recognized the PAL resolutions and frame-rates, though, and it also had whatever the French use). I'm using MMC 7.5; what version are you using? I can change the resolution when I create a new capture profile or edit an existing one.

2.) Sounds like a Macrovision problem. One of the ATI AIW reg tools (found in the Tools section) contains a patch that should fix it. Read the docs that come with this, though. The patch could work or stop Windows from booting.

3.) This happens to me sometimes (not thirty seconds, though). I usually start capturing a few seconds before the show/movie comes on and it usually fixes the problem (except for the first seconds of "blank" video). Or do you mean that it gradually gets out of sync? Make sure that before you capture, you defrag the drive and close as many programs as you can.

[Wolfie!]

the 7500 has pal settings but trust
me... they don't work.

the packaging makes reference to
using pal in argentina and brazil
but if you look in the tv settings
you will find nothing for countries
such as germany, UK, NZ, Australia
who all use pal as a native format.

Secam [french I think] is listed
but after seeing that pal didn't work then I doubt they'd have much luck either.

The only way I got this card to run pal is via the vcr av outputs...
the same as the older ati card I had which supposedly didn't support pal at all [not that this does either].


the flickering is not macrovision.
this was something I'd taped off
the tv.


The sound just slides out of sync
as the capture [playback] progresses, it's a known bug in the ATI apparently [why the hell they didn't fix it I have no idea, but I
do feel they're leaning towards gamers anyway]. my friend in the US
said he had no such problem, so maybe this card really hates to be
forced into using pal.

once everything goes digital then
we shoudn't have such problems...
alas we've still got a lot of analogue stuff we need to keep.
conversion is murder.