can anyone help me capture with an asus 8200?

[ollski]

I'm having no end of problems with this card.
If I try to capture with premiere 5.5 it runs through the capture as though everything is running well and then tells me the avi file its just made has no video or audio.Ok try video wave.It gets to about 3gig AVI file then gives the message "error cannot output to avi".Same sort of story in video studio.Even virtualdub only gets to a 4.2 gig video file before it throws an error.What am I doing wrong this card seems worse than my old 8mb all in wonder.It also drops 1 frame in 5.2 no matter what the setting.Has anyone had good results with this card?
System 1.2 athlon
chaintech kj7cd motherboard
512 mb ddr memory
76gig ibm hard disk (partitioned 20gig for video)

[IcehOt]

Hi there, don't know whether this will help.
I'm using Asus V7700 to capture everything seem not to work at first due to the software that i'm using is not original.

[onyx_z]

You didn't say what OS and file partitioning you are using. I'm guessing Win98se with a fat32 partition. Regardless of the capture card, fat32 has a 4 gig MAX file size. If you want to capture larger files, you'll need Win2000 or NT and a NTFS file system. Also we need to know what kind of hard drive you have, it's interface speed and drive RPM. For good captures, you'll want an ATA100 interface and a 7200 RPM drive, or go SCSI 80 or 160.
I have a V7700 that I LOVE. I'm making REALLY nice VCDs. BUT I use VirtualDub and TMPGEnc, I dont use asus live at all. And with windows 2000, I had to load an NVIDIA WDM driver to get my captures to work at all.
Onyx.

[koinhelgo]

I am really interested in the WDM driver bit----
so go on explain!

I use the 7700 and I have had spectacular results and not too good ones too. There seems no reason for the difference.
I had wonderful captures to avi and then conversions to mpg but I had to do a reformat cos of some probs and now (four reformats later) still can't get as good as I had.
I use virtualdub and tmpeg as well. Usually use Panasonic wavelet codec to capture in cos it hasd a nice bnalancxe of quality and conversiuons to mpgs are better - divx 's are better captured direct to div x though.
I have been experimenting with drivers off and on mostly to try and get a dvd rom game (dragons lair) as good as possible in software - I have an old p2 450 with a hardware decoder card that runs WDM dvd and main drivers through a cinemaster card and the playback is better - even with normal dvds (I think). I am now running an Athlon tbird 1300 with 1.5 gig of ram (limited to 512 megs cache- yes I've had lots of probs getting this to work) and a 7200 rpm 40 gig partitioned hd.
So basically why and how do I/would I install a wdm driver to improve things - even having this driver as an option might be better than the direct show drivers I have been trying.