VirtualVCR !

[Anonymous65]

I have finally made the switch to Win2K (XP) and left the old Win9x OS behind. I have also said goodbye to VFW drivers, and have reluctanlty gotten used to WDM only drivers. The main problem was saying goodbye to VirtualDub. iUVCR is not working out very good for me, and I con't care much for the interface.

However, I have found a free program that does all the things Virtualdub did for me during capture that does work with WDM drivers AND has a genious fix for the audio and video sync problem. VirtualVCR is a free WDM capture program that has all the features you need to capture from a PCI BT8x8 card using generic WDM drivers. Instead of dropping or adding frames like Virtualdub does, this program will dynamically change the audio sample rate to keep the audio in sync with the video, and not the video in sync with the audio. This means that you can capture unlimited video without dropping a single frame, and keep the audio in sync. I tried to capture a 4 hour file, and the audio was in perfect sync with the video without a single frame dropped.

VirtualVCR is simple and clean, and you can save all your settings. I don't know if the link is listed in the tools section, but this free program is a jewel for Win2K and XP users. http://www.digtv.ws

[gll99]

Your right about that app. I have been using it for a couple of weeks and its great for capturing AVI.

I might add an extra note though. You don't have to abandon win98 if you don't want to because wdm drivers work fine in win98SE. Just remove the old virtual vxd (vfw) drivers for your device by removing the reference to the video and audio in the device manager. Then remove the inf reference in the inf dir. Download "wdm" drivers". There are a few around for bt8xx cards. Here's a couple of links that contain drivers and tools to help you remove the old.


http://www.iulabs.com/eng/index.shtml

http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/index.html

[Anonymous65]

Yes, you're right, WDM does work under Win98, but if you want the extra stability of Win2K/XP and use NTFS, which is great when capping AVI. I have one 60 gig drive formated as NTFS, and I can capture as big files as I want, and I don't have to think about the 4 gig limit, frame serving, or capping in multiple segments.

I do have some problems playing the AVI file with audio in Media Player. The files encode fine with audio in Tmpgenc, but when playing the AVI file I have no audio. There are several settings I haven't tried yet in the capture program that I hope will take care of that...

[fmctm1sw]

I was going to start a new topic but this one is perfect. I tried Virtualvcr and it is the ONLY app so far that has allowed me to cap at 720X480. ON A CELERON 366! I have all the stats of the file I capped and will post later when I get home. There were some very specific issues that took me a long time to figure out but it was worth it.

[fmctm1sw]

I was going to start a new topic but this one is perfect. I tried Virtualvcr and it is the ONLY app so far that has allowed me to cap at 720X480. ON A CELERON 366! I have all the stats of the file I capped and will post later when I get home. There were some very specific issues that took me a long time to figure out but it was worth it.

I've got a sat tv cap going. 720X480. ZERO drops out of 92000 frames right now and there's less than 5 minutes of drive space left. I had a little trouble installing it, I couldn't unzip it at my "capture" computer. I had to unzip it at my "internet" computer. Then copy the files over. I also had trouble registering the filters (pay close attention to what the website says). Next to try compression.....