ATI 7500 VIVO

[TechieMan]

Any good for capturing to Mpeg2??

Can anyone pursuade me to buy one as I am getting for around 45 quid!!

[andkiich]

Do a search on that card in the forums. There have been numerous posts on that very card. I think you'll finds what you're looking for.

[gmatov]

If that's an All-in-Wonder, it's going for twice that, jump on it.

[txpharoah]

I'm not a fan of the VIVO, VE or other non-numeric ATI AIW non-RADEON cards.

[FOO]

TX
I'm happy you're not an Aggie. Me neitherr
I note from other posts you have a AIW 8500.

Do you ever capture from the tuner to PicVideo
Mjpeg ?
If so do you ever see it produce droped frames when viewed in
Vdub without reporting it on the capture display ?

Is the audio out of sync ?

Do scheduled captures fail to start ?

Mine does

[txpharoah]

TX
I'm happy you're not an Aggie. Me neitherr
I note from other posts you have a AIW 8500.
Do you ever capture from the tuner to PicVideoMjpeg ?
If so do you ever see it produce droped frames when viewed in
Vdub without reporting it on the capture display ?
Is the audio out of sync ?
Do scheduled captures fail to start ?
Mine does

I have the first AGP ATI AIW Radeon, the ATI AIW DDR32 (aka ATI AIW Radeon 7200) and an AGP ATI AIW Radeon 7500 (no remote). Not an 8500, though I have tested/used all but the 9800.

I have captured with several utilities with variant codecs, and it does not drop frames. I have tried the methods you mentioned, and have gotten no problems.

A few times source has caused frame drops, but that's rare and only with the oldest of problematic tapes. Or when I'm stubborn and try to multitask during capture (normally just to capture the news or something unimportant for casual tidbit viewing - like when they adverstise a news story that doesn't show up for a while on the news, so I capture it then browse back to it later - not worth using a tape, as I delete it when done - and I'm not going to watch all of that news crap for just one story).

On the new MMC 8.1 or 8.5, without a fresh system restart, the schedule functions will fail an crash the system more often than not. Reboot. Then set schedule. That was my fix. Not an unreasonable request of the software.

[FOO]

Thanks for you input.
I am pretty sure the 7500 and 8500 are very similar or
identical as far as capture behavior.
What gets me is this thing only screws up some captures.
Hard to track down.

I have to disagree that its OK to crash the computer on
a scheduled capture unless you reboot and don't do anything
else. In fact I would say that is completely unacceptable.
( Aggie translation: it sucks)[/quote]

[TechieMan]

I'm not a fan of the VIVO, VE or other non-numeric ATI AIW non-RADEON cards.

I would have thought after 7000 series they are all Radeon. Anyway I think its a normal VIVO and not AIW....is there much difference.

I was using Pinnacle DC30....but firstly its legacy now....with not much win2k support....cannot capture in batch (seamless), if I do capture huge 20gig+ files, the audio is out of sync.

However I also have a WinTV (BT878) and captured with AVI_IO with sound running through the Line In of Soundblaster Live and A/V is in Sync.

See I bought the DC30 a while back thinking it was a semi pro card when it came out therefore it would be good for transfering VHS to DVD but HOW WRONG WAS I!!

Anyway my task is basically to transfer from VHS to DVD...and I was thinking of doing this for Freelance on occassions....now I know I need a good card...(Canopus DV Storm, Matrox Rt.x10, X100, possibly Pinnacle Pro One). But budget is very tight at the moment, if a cheapy card can give acceptable quality I can do the long way and then when I have the budget to invest in a good card!!

txpharoah - You said in one of other posts that you do some freelance work...so the AIW crads quality must be pretty good! I don't mind spending abit of time on the video to make it DVD compliant....what I don't want is unstable system, A/V out of sync etc tec.

Thanks all for your help!