Capture w/ Voodoo 3500 and Windows 2000

[pixyjunket]

Hi all.

I hope somebody can help me here. I am using a Voodoo 3500 TV card on Windows 2000 on a Duron 750..

In Virtual Dub, the card does not show up, only the default Windows VDM driver thing. This is probably the root of the problem. I have downloaded a few sets of drivers from www.voodoofiles.com and none of them appear to make much difference.

I can capture with the default setting, using PicVideo MJPEG at full quality (20), the compression is something like 50:1 (is that normal?), and it drops a frame or 2 every second.

Any advice is very much apprecaited. What I am trying to do is put some old VHS movies on VCD so I don't have to worry about the tapes getting any worse than they already are. (:

Edit: Forgot to mention that I can't change any of the setting in VirtualDub dealing with color resoultions, and it gives me hell if I try to do anything other than 320x240.

[Digitizer]

Well, jeez, man, drop the Q setting from 20 to 19 or 18. That's what the slider is for. Under Win2000 the frames will be lost if your proc can't handle it, where under Win98 it will simply drop the quality on auto without losing frames. If you have MJPEG working, there is nothing more that you need really. It's the best.

[pixyjunket]

Yup. What the main question though, is how to get the Voodoo 3500 properly working here in Windows 2000. Or should using the standard Windows capture driver be reliable enough?

[Digitizer]

If you get the picture in VirtualDub, it's working allright. My ATI TV Wonder is not even seen by Win2000. The picture is there though, and the drivers are showing as default. Maybe they are not Uninstall Voodoo drivers, and the picture will be gone, probably.