Xtasy Everything Probs

[Greyhair]

Man, if I ever get a capture card working again, I don't think I'll ever change anything.

Anyway.....

I just got the Visiontek xtasy everything card. Installed fine, got a picture, audio is fine. However, I have these white interference bands marching from bottom to top in the video. I've changed plugs, circuits, cabling, unplugged the video card fan, run the signal from two different sources......same damned interference. Jiggling or moving things around makes zero difference in the bands marching along. It seems like some kind of line interference from somewhere, but I'm at a loss having tried a bunch of fixes.

I'm also wondering if it could be a defective "Vivo" box that came with the card?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[Greyhair]

Update, just installed the card in a totally separate computer. Same problem.

[spooky]

Have you yet tried using the Video In or S-Video In to see if you get the same problem?
Also, try playing a VCR or maybe some type of console unit to see if this problem is coming from a Cable source.
I used to have that problem when I used the Tunner on my Leadtek TV card, then I switched to Line In using Svideo & problem went away
HTH

[Greyhair]

Well, the tricky thing with this unit is that the video-in goes into a separate tuner box, which has a proprietary plug going to the video card itself. The box does have an S-video in (I'm using composite now) which I'm gonna try later, but as far as I can tell you can't circumvent the tuner box and go straight to the card.

The problem occurs on all video signals coming in thus far. I've tested cable, TV, and VCR, all with the same problem appearing.

[Bel]

Yeah, I have the same thing with mine... Probably a ground loop problem. Happens with shi**y electricity from what I gathered. Don't really know what causes it, something about different ground differentials... Try having all of the equipment plugged into the same grounded outlet, i.e., the computer, and whatever is playing the signal, and anything hooked up to either. I got mine pretty much taken care of with a lot of plug jiggling, etc... good luck.

[Greyhair]

I did all the plug giggling/changing in the world, no go.

I hooked my apex dvd player with s-video out directly to the tuner box. No interference at all. Looks like the problem is either with interference being acquired through the composite cable, or the composite plug on the box is defective. I suspect that later because I've used composite input for over a year without interference on another card.

Any thoughts?

[Greyhair]

Just for the record, I figured it out.

The problem was noise coming through the cable! When I disconnected my vcr from the cable, the noise went away. You could induce/eliminate the noise by plugging it in, then out. I tried this with the direct cable connection too, same result.

Anyone have any idea's how to easily eliminate this noise from the cable itself? Right now, I'm looking at recording the signal on one vcr, then capturing from another vcr.

[crystaldon]

I have the same thing. Plug in cable and get noise, remove cable and noise goes away. Friends at work say it's a 60 hz hum riding on top of the signal, which implies it's a bad cable, somewhere. I traced mine down to the incoming cable (from the cable company) but I haven't had a chance to contact them yet.

[crystaldon]

By the way, I also have a Visiontek Xtasy everything. Wonder if there's something going on with the capture system??

[Greyhair]

Thank you for you post. Interesting that you have the same tuner box that I have.......?

If anyone else has had this same problem, I'd be interested to hear about it. I've got it working, but it's not nearly as convenient as it could be, taping in two separate places....