having found that it might be worth persuing this...... I've got this elsa card, victory erazor, and an elsa program called mainactor. the card seems to work fine as a video card. i have been trying to use it to capture analogue video into the pc. i've got mainactor (v3?) installed, Win98, and directX 8.0 (8.1?). anyone familiar with this mainactor, or even better, the elsa video capture driver? cos i keep getting this error message saying the driver couldn't be initialized, and a list of possible errors. all possible errors are ok on my machine (I think), only worrying one is one which says check that directX5 is installed; does it matter which directX version is installed? any other pointers? would it help to copy the exact error message here? is there perhaps a user group/site devoted to these cards, the elsa site is v unhelpful.

thanks

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