Capturing issue with AIW 128

[grossmj]

I have tried for several days to avail, so I figured I would tap our combined thoughts....

I have purchased several "previously-viewed" videos from Blockbuster (Evil Empire) with the intent of creating a digital movie library on VCD. The oldest (60's-) videos capture great, but the newer ones have that shit Macrovisio in them. As far as I am aware, since I purchased the videos, I can create a personal use copy in any VCD, no? Anyway, the question at hand is: Is there anyway around VHS's macrovision encoding using a Composite input signal with an AIW 128 16MB???? I've tried ATI's shit capture program as well as VirtualDUB... Is this just a hardware thing that cannot be overcome? Is personal use law dead? PLEASE ADVISE....

[patrickm]

use the 4.12.6292 ATI drivers (unless you're in win2K). go search http://www.rage3d.com forums for a link about '30 second patch'. this still stop the looping of frames at least some of the time. you still get some brightness flickering in AVI mode, almost none direct to MPEG. use MMC 7.1 to capture to SVCD bitrates with motion estimation as high as you can go without losing frames.

[grossmj]

Ok, but what if I AM using win2k (for al of it's numerous performance advantages)? Is there a patch for driver version 5.13.1.192? Thank you very much for the idea!

[patrickm]

it might work for that one too. i think that's the one i'm running (i'm dual booting ME/2K). capture is better in 9x than 2K because you can use real VFW drivers.

[grossmj]

No luck finding that link on rage3d forums... you have direct link or another source?

[patrickm]

it's still right there...

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20732