capture issues using all-in-wonder 7500

[pglenn]

I am using all-in-wonder 7500, windows XP, and all other programs closed at the time, 13gig of free space before recording. I have my cable tv plugged into the card (coaxial) and am attempting to capture programs. I am using the A-I-W TV viewer and recording/capturing from there.

the capture works fine when recording 1hour broadcasts from cable (file size 2gig) but it has failed when recording movies on 2+ hours. It is not the signal/broadcast as I have tested for short records of 15minutes on the same channel with no problems. and my settings are fine as I can record shorter lengths of video.

when recording from cable for 2+ hours, the video file is corrupted. file size is about 6.5gig, the recording actauuly seems to start about 1/3 into the movie (dont know why, I began recording at the beginning), and the picture is corrupted - blurry, snow/static, block of "digital squares" all over.

I am capturing to MPEG-2 format, 720x480 size, 44.1k audio, 6.67mb/s vbr, and motion estimate quality of 88.

I have read the ATI FAQ and see nothing related to the size of the file affecting the capture quality (which is what I am assuming as part of the problem). I see nothing there relating to my issue actually, and emails to them are useless.

I have the latest driver for the video card, and the latest chipset drivers.

If the A-I-W wont work, is there another program I can try?

[txpharoah]

Defrag your hard drive. Run a disk doctor on it.

Probably not a video error, but rather HD error.

Also be sure to use most updated ATI drivers, and the ATI MMC 7.7 (not 8.1 or anything older than 7.7)

[2fives]

Try using virtual dub to capture, it has a built in tuner so you can still capture off the tuner. If you want to capture straight to mpeg2 you might try playing with the "I" frame setting in the multimedia center properties. Check out page 44 of the ati MMC manual.

I have the same card and have already been through all this.

[2fives]

I forgot to mention if your using the aiw 7500 it probably came with multimedia 7.5, I upgraded to the next version and nothing but troubles. Re-installed the drivers that came with my card (MMC 7.5) and smooooooooth.

[txpharoah]

MMC 7.5 has audio issues when files are split and synching problems. That's why they made 7.7... audio fixes.

The ATI MMC software is what should be used to capture from an ATI card. Use anything else, and you'll most likely have dropped frames.

Bad files after-the-fact is probably still you HD and not the card or software. Defrag the drive and run disk doctor. Also try to capture to a second drive, not the OS drive. Lots of issues capping to the OS drive.

[oldfart13]

I have a similar problem in that no other programs will work with sound on my 7500 when I upgraded to Win XP except MMC 7.5/7.6. If I try to record AVI in Virtual Dub or IU_VCR, then there is no sound in the recording, even though the window shows the sound being recorded and the sound is in the preview. So far, no fix for that...

[sLiMpAuLy]

MMC 7.5 has audio issues when files are split and synching problems. That's why they made 7.7... audio fixes.

The ATI MMC software is what should be used to capture from an ATI card. Use anything else, and you'll most likely have dropped frames.

Bad files after-the-fact is probably still you HD and not the card or software. Defrag the drive and run disk doctor. Also try to capture to a second drive, not the OS drive. Lots of issues capping to the OS drive.

I capture sat with this card and have great results

I use ati mmc 7.604, mpeg 2, 720x480, 44.100khz 16 bit, P frames=4, B frames=2, VBR@6.98M, MEQ=93, Max file size is at windows limit, I also capture to temp drive (OS) then when capture completes it moves to storage (2nd) HDD.

hope this helps!!

like I said , near DVD quality mpegs

Good luck