BTWincap driver installation problem

[bc at large]

I have an ATI TV Wonder card that I'm running in WinXP and wanted to capture to MPEG2 for DVD, but wanted something higher than 240 vertical.

After much browsing on these boards, I took several people's advice and downloaded the BTWincap drivers.

Well, they didn't work for me. I'm not sure if I installed them correctly. The installer auto-detected my card fine, and the installation went without a hitch. Only now, no matter what software I use, I'm getting a crappy picture. Plus, I still can't seem to go any higher then 240.

I checked the main web site for the driver, and everything should be compatable with my systerm. My card is one of the supported cards.

I can't get a picture in either VirtualDub or Virtual VCR. Power VCRII has picture, but the capture settings are the same.

Here's the weird part...I tried to install ATI MMC, and when the screen comes up for the TV Tuner to choose your country, United States isn't listed!! Not America, North America...Nothing.

Does any body have any advice for me on this? Did I screw the installation up or something? I may be somewhat of a newbie at creating DVDs, but I'm defiantely not new at installing programs and drivers!

Any help or insight on this matter would greatly appreciated!

BC

[mgh]

BTwincap installer worked without problem for me in earlier PC with ME and in 98 on my current dual boot 98 and XP. In XP it screwed my installation so that I couldn't get any driver to work. I re installed XP and installed BTWincap drivers manually without installing my original drivers. Had to install WDM wrapper in ME,98 and surprisingly in XP also.

[BrainStorm69]

The way I got them to work the best with my Avermedia card was to:

1. Install avermedia drivers
2. Use the BTSpy application
3. Use the BTwin installer doing a "custom card" install. This allows you to import the file created with BTSpy to set the custom card settings.

[bc at large]

Actually, my problem was solved when they released the latest version of these drivers a couple of weeks ago.

Exactly what the problem was remains a mystery.

[andie41]

I have a Pinnacle card and the best setupup for me, was to uninstall (or not install) Pinnacle software. I would suggest removing all ATI software - programs and drivers. If there is an ATI utility to aid this, use it. I would then go to device manager, select the ATI card and uninstall the card - reboot.

I also had problems trying to use a "wrapper" - had to uninstall it.

Check to make sure the system finds the card - XP may bring up installation requesters - cancel. Check device manager and there should be an entry for the card - not enabled, but still showing. Now run the BTwincap installer, select the option to uninstall any previously installed drivers - just to be sure. Then, install the BTwincap driver.

Hopefully that will do it. Now you need to use a capture program -VirtualVCR is my choice, and make sure you get the settings correct. Under the devices select your sourse, S-Video or composite, and in "Video", select capture size, framerate, etc. and in "video - device settings", make sure you have selected your video standard -NTSC.