I was amazed at this discovery.

I have a toshiba sd 2900 (horrible picture quality - very noticable when watching on PC monitor - below is how I got it to play) dvd player and it's connected through my old card Hauppage WinTV PCI with FM tuner. I connect through S-Video Input on the card.

If I use Win2k with it's current drivers (picture looks very good) my picture get's scrambled.. (sigh) (macrovision, right)

If I use WinXP however with the it's drivers the picture is NOT scrambled (that's the key right there - something with the drivers). However there are two funny things happening.

1. I have to use overlay to get *alike* picture quality as in Win2k. On primary "setting" the picture is interlaced and I am not given the option in WinTV2000 application to deinterlace it. I have to change to USE overlay to enable deinterlacing option (note: I don't have to do this at all in Win2k).

2. Movie that is captured get's blurred either way you capture it (VirtualDub here complains that the driver is not installed properly although it connects to some Microsoft Vid Cap driver, but the picture looks very blocky and it can't capture above 240 vertical size - On the other hand Hauppage WinTV can capture at all formats except that below 480 vertical I have a feeling that there is something wrong with it's resize routines or some FIELDS get thrown off so the picture looks blurred - One thing to mention is that when I run that ddcheck utility provided by hauppage it specifies for directdraw that it does not indicate microsoft certified driver; Also when capturing using YVU9 the picture looks very green - in Win2k this is not the issue).

Well could anyone figure out here what could be wrong? I tried this capture thing but it doesn't work (picture looks horrible, and with this driver macrovision is detected). http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/

Either way there is some info on macrovision *perfection*.

B.T.W I am trying to test something with capturing directly from DVD player to my HD.

Dinks