MSI TV@nywhere Capture Driver Problem

[Sam Ontario]

During software installation, it needs tsbyuv.dll but I cannot find it on the driver disk. After downloading the newer version software from MSI Website, the tsbyuv.dll is still missing. I can use it to capture but dropped a lot of frames. Pls help.

My configuration: ASUS P4V533-X, 2.4G Celeron, 512MB DDR RAM, LG 16X DVD ROM LG 48x24x48 CD-RW, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, 20G Maxter + 80G Western Digital with 8MB Cache.

Also Sound Blaster live 5.1 installed OK but no sound.

[Marco33]

I've had this card. It worked good for me.

How do you know you are dropping frames? I don't recall the software showing dropped frames durring or after capture.

What are you capturing from? TV? VHS?

What are you capturing to... AVI? MPEG2?

Make sure the "Line in" is not mutted on your

Setting\Control panel\Sounds & audio devices\Advanced\Line in

[gmatov]

I have the card, also. It works well.

I just did a search, all drives, and I don't have tsbyuv.dll on my system.

No idea where it's supposed to come from.

[Sam Ontario]

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How do you know you are dropping frames? I don't recall the software showing dropped frames durring or after capture.

What are you capturing from? TV? VHS?

What are you capturing to... AVI? MPEG2?

Make sure the "Line in" is not mutted on your

Setting\Control panel\Sounds & audio devices\Advanced\Line in

1. When playing VHS tape thru the capture card, its smooth on the monitor. When the record (capture) button is pressed, screen started to show jerky on the monitor. During playback, it is also jerky.

2. Capturing from Hi8 tape.

3. I am using the software comes with card to capture, I guess its MPEG2.

4. If line in is muted, you cannot capture any, right?

[Sam Ontario]

I have the card, also. It works well.

I just did a search, all drives, and I don't have tsbyuv.dll on my system.

No idea where it's supposed to come from.

What OS you are using?

[Sam Ontario]

I've had this card. It worked good for me.

What Windows OS you are using with this card?

[Sam Ontario]

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Make sure the "Line in" is not mutted on your
Setting\Control panel\Sounds & audio devices\Advanced\Line in

Sorry I didn't read into my mind. This was meant for the Soundblaster Live 5.1 and not the capture card. Will give it a try, thanks.

[Marco33]

I've had this card. It worked good for me.

What Windows OS you are using with this card?

XP


Try capturing a 1/2 DVD resolution. Mine would jerk at 704X480 but at 356X480 it was ok.

[Sam Ontario]

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Try capturing a 1/2 DVD resolution. Mine would jerk at 704X480 but at 356X480 it was ok.[/quote]

What software are you using? The one (intervideo?) came with the card does not seem to have resolution settings.

[Marco33]

Look around harder there are setting for it. I don't have the card any more nor the software or else I would be more specific.

[gmatov]

Sam,

If you click on the "wrench" toolbox button, you have a "plethora" of settings.
(How you like that word.?)

You have 1/2D 1, 1/4 D1, D1, MPEG 1, 2, and 4, VCD, SVCD, User Defined, etc.

When I get around to opening it, I'll take a couple screen shots, and try to post them, if I can follow the directions properly.

It also has All the PAL settings, and just possibly, SECAM, but I don't remember.

The only thing I can't really remember seeing is AVI.

The last time I used it, a couple weeks ago, the output had a stutter-step in it. txpharoah said it sounded as though I were dropping frames. I really don't know, as, in the post above, I'm not sure if there is a mechanism in it to tell you of dropped frames. I AM pretty sure the PCTV cap prog did tell you dropped frames, but the cap from it was the same as this output, stutter-step, even though it said "no dropped frames".

[Sam Ontario]

Sam,

If you click on the "wrench" toolbox button, you have a "plethora" of settings.
(How you like that word.?)

You have 1/2D 1, 1/4 D1, D1, MPEG 1, 2, and 4, VCD, SVCD, User Defined, etc.

When I get around to opening it, I'll take a couple screen shots, and try to post them, if I can follow the directions properly.

It also has All the PAL settings, and just possibly, SECAM, but I don't remember.

The only thing I can't really remember seeing is AVI.

The last time I used it, a couple weeks ago, the output had a stutter-step in it. txpharoah said it sounded as though I were dropping frames. I really don't know, as, in the post above, I'm not sure if there is a mechanism in it to tell you of dropped frames. I AM pretty sure the PCTV cap prog did tell you dropped frames, but the cap from it was the same as this output, stutter-step, even though it said "no dropped frames".

Thanks. I used the Wrench button and found the resolution settings. Yes, the drop frames were stutter-steps as corrected. I was capturing VCD quality and stutter-steps were very noticeable say every 10 seconds. If I captured in SVCD mode (480x480), stutter-steps almost every second.

Is stutter-step a limitation of this card or a system OS limitation (say if Windows XP has no such limitation?) or CPU speed limitation?

What capture card are you guys using?

[Sam Ontario]

I've had this card. It worked good for me.
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Make sure the "Line in" is not mutted on your
Setting\Control panel\Sounds & audio devices\Advanced\Line in

Thanks. This solved my sound problem.
I will probably try Windows XP to see if the stutter-steps problem can be solved with this card.

What card are you using now for capture?

[Marco33]

What card are you using now for capture?

Even tho the MSI card is very good... it's also system dependant. Rather than upgrade my sytem I bought a DAC-100 converter.

Now that I've seen the DAC in action I wished I'd kept the MSI. The DAC is great as long as the Tape is in great condition. If you have old home movies, instead of dropping frames here and there like the MSI card... it dropps sets of frames. Sometimes 40 or more in a row.

How fast is your system?

You didn't fill out your profile.

[Sam Ontario]

What card are you using now for capture?

How fast is your system?

You didn't fill out your profile.

Profile updated.

Maybe its the missing tsbyuv.dll file causing problems for the MSI card. During installation, it had at least 3 times asking for this driver on the CDROM that came with the card. I had tried my Windows 98 SE CDROM, it was also not found. If it still does not work properly tonight, I might try Windows XP this week end.

Most of my Hi8 tapes are in good condition. I record them only once mostly and never record them more than twice. I would like them get record in SVCD format before them got deteriorated. I might also buy a DVD writer in future but I think at the moment, all DVD writers are prematured products just like those old days when CDR and CDRW at 1x causing a lot of writing and reading problems on media.

[Marco33]

My system is 1 gig slower & I had no problem capin' at 356X480 so your problem is not the system.

Try it on XP.

Also found tsbyuv.dll file here

http://www.helpy.com.ar/cen-dll/t.htm

I'M NOT RECOMMENDING THIS SITE, but they do have the file.

[Sam Ontario]

Thanks.

How come it suddenly related to Toshiba driver? Kind of irrelevent.

I will try XP and see if the problem goes away. Thanks for those helping posts.

[Marco33]

Don't know...

I did a search on my system. That file is in my Windows\system 32 folder.

Looks like the same exact file. I opened both of them in Notepad.

[gmatov]

Hey, My W98 system still doesn't have tsbyuv.dll, so I don't know why you need it. I never get such an error.

Have you Dl'd the latest drivers and other MSI software? I think there are 3 updates, at least last time I was there, it was 3.

Just looked at your first. You did get the latest. Your system is faster than mine. I don't know why you get the same problem..

Maybe some settings not right in your system. ( I'm sure mine is not running at top speed. Some things should be faster. Have to look for some twaeks. )

[Sam Ontario]

Gmatov,

Thanks for pointing this out.

Now I installed Windows XP. It works for up to 480x480 just without any stutter-steps. Capturing to 640x480 is garbage. Perhaps it needs a 5 Ghz CPU to do that fawlessly.

At the moment, my goal is to backup my Hi8 tapes to SVCD. This card is OK. When a matured DVD writer comes out, I will try to buy a better card to backup the Hi8 to MPEG2 DVDs.

In the meantime, I won't recommend this card to anyone. Perhaps the Leadtek TV 2000 XP Deluxe is a better choice.

[Sam Ontario]

Marco33,

Thanks for your helps.

I am capturing OK now with Windows XP Pro (D:drive) but I cannot go back to my Windows 98 (Crive 80G WD) after installing XP onto my 20G Maxtor). Any chance to get it back or get it to dual boot?

[Marco33]

Marco33,

Thanks for your helps.

I am capturing OK now with Windows XP Pro (D:drive) but I cannot go back to my Windows 98 (Crive 80G WD) after installing XP onto my 20G Maxtor). Any chance to get it back or get it to dual boot?

I say it's time to move on my friend. Say your last goodbye's to 98 and move on to XP. I've had both and since I've gone XP I've never looked back.

Take a look at the "Sticky" at the top of this forum (Not this topic) and read where it says "Why does my system drop frames".

Now that you have gotten the card to work, it's time to squeeze out the top performance of your system.

[gmatov]

Sam,

I think you might have to do a re-install and watch the options more closely, to allow you to dual boot. Somewhere it should have asked if you want to install as a second OS, and you may have made the wrong choice, unintentionally.
I have no problem with my dual boot of 98 and W2k, but was very antsy the first time.
Supposedly, when you have to re-install 98 for some reason, it overwrites the boot option, but I did this recently, and all it did was change the boot preference order. No harm, which was a relief as I thought I would have to re-install W2k, also.

[Sam Ontario]

I say it's time to move on my friend. Say your last goodbye's to 98 and move on to XP. I've had both and since I've gone XP I've never looked back.
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I miss my Virtual CDRoms which hold Encarta, Dictionaries in W98 and I have to say good bye to them as well. Those old nice programs cannot be loaded onto XP.

[Sam Ontario]

Sam,

I think you might have to do a re-install and watch the options more closely, to allow you to dual boot. Somewhere it should have asked if you want to install as a second OS, and you may have made the wrong choice, unintentionally.
I have no problem with my dual boot of 98 and W2k, but was very antsy the first time.
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Thanks. I will try to install XP again and see if I can get W98 back as dual boot.

[gmatov]

Sam,

Re-reading everything, you may only have to re-install 98.

When you install Win2k, after you have installed 98, ( the older system HAS to be installed first ), it writes to the MBR, and gives you a choice on boot. I have to assume ( I hate that word, because....) it overwrites your MBR, allowing you to choose which to boot into, with a default 30 seconds.

XP may assume it is to be the Master OS, and a re-install of 98 may be the solution.

If you go into System, configuration,or somesuch, and click on some buttons, you may find that you have an option to boot into one or the other, which would require a re-boot. I'm sorry to be so vague, but it is bed time here. If you don't have it figured by Sunday PM, I'll boot the other machine and try to explain it more clearly.

It's almost 3 AM, and I'm going golfing with the youngest and her husband at 8, so gotta get some sleep.

Hang in.

[Sam Ontario]

Sam,
Re-reading everything, you may only have to re-install 98.
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Re-installation of 98 crashed XP. Will install XP again tonight!

[bladestorm]

Hey Sam, did you figure out what the problem with the .dll file was. I just picked up the TV@nywhere master today and have the same problem on installation. I installed as much as I could minus the tsbyuv.dll, and MSIPVS hangs the system.

[gmatov]

Blade,

You should fill out your comp details, also, Sam's was XP.

My own card works well under 98, w/o the dll. At least I can't find it on my machine.

If your machine keeps asking for the dll, go to the site linked above, DL it to a folder you can find again ( sometimes the dialog box doesn't give you the option of a browse button, so unless you know where it is you can't tell it where to look.)

I recently re-installed my OS and the MSIPVS, no updated drivers yet, and it works well, just left this post to open it

Personally, I think it's a pretty good card, better (at least easier to do anything with than my Pinnacle PCTV, my Hauppage, my Maxxron,and an old Phillips

I WILL say, the cap iss pretty bad at MPEG4, unless you want to watch it on your 'puter in a little window.. 264 kbps, a 1/4 of VCD looks shitty On the other hand, you can cap a hell of a lot on a "small" drive

[bladestorm]

Sorry, I filled in my comp details. Anyways, I found out it was asking for 4 more .dll files so I just D/L'ed them and now it should be fully installed. MSIPVS still freezes my comp when I try to open it however. Do you know of any good 3rd party PVS software compatible with the tv@nywhere? I'm trying Dscaler, but I cant seem to get it to work.