Does anyone have a PNY GF FX5900 128mb?

[warbird]

I just bought this card (replacing my old faithful AIW Radeon 32mb ddr) and noticed that is says 'VIVO' next to the 4pin svideo port on the back of it. I bought it OEM (card only) and from what im seeing on the PNY site it comes with a vivo cable when bought in retail box. I dont have any such vivo cable however. I installed the nvidia WDM drivers to attempt to capture and after doing so there is a explaination mark next to the nvidia capture device in device manager (code 10-device cannot start). So to make a long story short, does this card really have video-in capture capabilities, and if so could someone point me to where I might be able to find the cable for it? Ive seen vivo cables for sale but they are all 9-pin connectors and not a 4-pin. THanks!

[jdizzy40]

VIVO, Video In Video Out. It does not capture. You can hook up a VCR or DVD player to it and watch on NVDVD software. And you can output your desk top to a TV. The little cable unit that plugs into the back of the card is black, s-video connector on one end, block connector on other with s-video in, s-video out-, video in, video out. I have the Ultra 256mb model. Thats about it. Questions? You can use a s-video cable to an s-video switch box, the kind that also has composite inputs as well to accomplish the same thing that this cable does As far as the capture error goes I can't answer that one. I bought the upgrad for NVDVD to capture still frames and audio, but don't think this has anything to do with your issue, but I could be wrong.

[jdizzy40]

I would recommend un-installing the capture drivers you installed. I think those are for thier Cinemax or Vision something card which is based on the slow MX 440 chip.

[warbird]

Thanks for the replys. I allways thought all vivo devices could capture video. If thats not the case with this card then I guess I will break down and finally get a win-hdtv card that I have allways wanted. BTW, I just found out that nvidia just now released drivers to fix the 'flickering' problem with the 5900 cards. driver is here.
http://www.3dgpu.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=72
or here
http://www.nvnews.net/files/drivers/nvidia/45.33_xp.zip
It really works!

[jdizzy40]

Buy the WIn PVR 250, great MPEG-2 hardware encoder. Running it using Snapstream for my TIVO like box. Looked at the new USB PVR 2 model tonight. A big improvement over their last unit. This one has FM radio too.

[RabidDog]

I have a vivo card and it does capture video. You do need the wdm driver s to be installed as well. It probably needs a cable to be actually connected as it detects the 75ohm resistance( as mine does)> mine also has the same sort of cable which is s-video,composite-video in and out. These cables are fairly specific to each mfr and would only be available from them. My card is only a mx460 but captures happily in svcd with no problems.
it also ouputs to tv as well.
I'm waiting for hauppage to release usb-2 versions of their digibox dec2000t.

[jdizzy40]

What software are you using to capture with. Then it must be a soft capture and not hard correct.

[warbird]

avi_io and vdub. Its not a software problem.

[warbird]

It probably needs a cable to be actually connected as it detects the 75ohm resistance( as mine does.

Mine has just a std 4-pin female svideo port, all the vivo cables im seeing on ebay are 9-pin. guess im out of luck

[LanEvo7]

You can capture on VIVO. I set up a computer that had a ti4200 VIVO that could capture fine using Virtual Dub. The only thing is you would need to buy a RCA to Stereo cable since VIVO doesn't capture sound.

[jdizzy40]

Heck. I learned something new. Never saw anything in any of the VIVO cards that I bought over the past 4 years about being able to capture. been buying AIW and PCI TV tuners to capture composite. Now I know, but I think I have my bases covered without having to go this route.

[warbird]

I guess its not all bad, im getting an avg of 75-120fps at 1600 x 1200 x 32bit x maximum everything, 4xAA/4xAF in mohaa, it would just be nice to have vivo to go with it

[TechOne]

Ok, first time post.

Ever since I bought my MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 w/agp 8x and VIVO, I haven't been able to capture anything. MSI says it can capture video, it states in the box that it is capable of, so what am I doing wrong?

The first time I intalled it, I could select the vga drivers and also the capture drivers. But now, only the vga drivers are lit on the cd menu. Even then, I had that yellow exclamation mark to the left of the WDM Capture Driver (universal) and the Code 10 error. I've tried old, new, MSI tweaked drivers with no luck. Same code 10 error, and no capture device installed errors with virtualdub, scenalyzer, reeldvd, wincap, etc.

I then unistalled wdm drivers from control panel, and windows sees device after restarting but after driver intallation, the code 10 appears.

RabidDog, what version and/or combination of drivers are u using? Can u describe the process of the drivers intallation? Maybe I am doing something wrong. Anyone, please help. Thx in advance.

System:
WinXP Pro SP1
Asus MoBo P4PE
Intel P4 2.53 Ghz
512MB ram
Maxtor 120GB 8MB cache
Lite on cdrw 52x
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200/8xAGP w/VIVO (MS-8894)