Stereo VCD with ATI AIW Radeon 32 ?

[joejddj]

Help please!

I have an ATI AIW Radeon AGP on a 1.6 Gig Athlon XP with 384 MB running Win2000 and may I say the in my opinion this board is unbeliavable. The picture quality is superb and being able to record real time to any format with Digital VCR is a dream come true .

The VCD Mpeg1 is a "hair blockier", or sharper, than TMpegEnc (which is blurrier on purpose). However, when I record with AIW directly to VCD 2.0 compliant Mpeg1 it is not recording in stereo even though I can hear the stereo input and I selected 44,100 Hz, 16-bit, Stereo .

Has anyone experienced this problem and/or can anyone help?

Joe

[Bastian]

well, i don't know this card but could it be that the card has no stereo chip? :-?

[Sulik]

All my VCDs captured with ATI MMC have always been stereo.
Make sure you're not hooking the audio using a mono cable.
What soundcard are you using ?

[joejddj]

All my VCDs captured with ATI MMC have always been stereo.
Make sure you're not hooking the audio using a mono cable.
What soundcard are you using ?

Thanks Sulik for your help. No, the patch is the stereo cable right out of the AIW using the ATI-provided harness. All TV reception is in stereo (incredible sound by the way) and I set the Digital VCR audio format to 44,100 Hz 16-bit stereo with the MMC 7.1 setup. However, when I play back any recording, whether Mpeg1 or Mpeg2 or AVI, it's only stereo. I must be doing something wrong.

Joe

[luket1]

Hi Joe, does your ATI AIW Radeon 32mb allow you to choose Australia in the broadcast selection box? I feel that i was sent the wrong card, but hope not. I live in Australia and need the tuner to tune PAL. Any ideas around this problem...or does the card go back? By the way i hope you get your sound problem sorted.