Filter incompatability with older program colorspace

[n4mwd]

I have an older video capture program that is used for security. I've looked and have not been able to find a replacement with all the same features as the older program. The problem is the older program demands that the video capture filter provide an RGB output. However, the new capture device only outputs UYVY and its expected that the program will simply load a colorspace converter. Unfortunately, the older program (Copyright 1999 I think) wants to connect to the capture device filter directly and refuses to load a colorspace converter.

So is there any kind of wrapper program that will appear like a capture device and will use the existing capture filter and covertly apply colorspace conversion?

The old capture device is buggy and only runs in Win98. I desparately need to get this thing going on XP.

Thanks in advance.

[Krispy Kritter]

You likely have two choices. Try to keep the Win98 box running or move on to a new program for XP.

[poisondeathray]

Provide more information on the captured file, what codec and can it be played on a directshow player (e.g. MPC) ? Use mediainfo for more info

You can use an avisynth wrapper e.g. makeavis (included with ffdshow), either use ConvertToRGB() in the script or use makeavis interface to force the colorspace. This will make a tiny "dummy" avi signpost and will appear to be a new file with the new characteristics to the other program. Other avisynth "wrapper" utilities you can try include avs2avi , avfs (avisynth virtual file system)

[FulciLives]

Well poisondeathray if I understand n4mwd correctly then the problem is he can't even capture so what you said does him no good.

Also what Krispy Kritter said also seems out-of-place.

It appears that the old program does not even function with the new hardware i.e., the video capture device.

So even if n4mwd can get the old program to run in WinXP or newer ... still no good ... as the capture program wants RGB and the capture device does NOT output RGB.

Frankly given that set of circumstances I say there isn't much hope here.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[poisondeathray]

Sorry I misunderstood the workflow. Thx for spelling it out fulci I re-read it and think I know what's going on now. You could try using a directshow filter graph in graphstudio to capture using the colorspace converter filter. This is why I asked if the codec worked in directshow

New Capture card in XP => UYVY output => colorspace converter to RGB => old program

You can also try running win98 compatibility mode for the old software or check for updated drivers, you never mentioned if the old program works in xp, only that the old device does not.