ATI TV WONDER VE CAPTURE PROBLEM

[whizzersmith]

Just got hold of a ati tv wonder ve card of ebay, the problem is that after installing card and mmc 7.1 ,ati drivers and putting a 3.5mm jack to 3.5mm jack from tv card to sound blaster line in, I can capture the picture but no sound, I have folllowed instructions on making shure that the recording sound control pannel is set to record what you hear but still no sound (the sound is ok when watching channels) and also have found that the sound level sometimes has a problem where it drops to being very quiet and does not become normal volume again till i restart machine, Is this problem to do with the card as i wired it straight to my speakers and its still does the same thing sometimes or is it a software poblem

Help !

Thanks
Whizzersmith

[whizzersmith]

This problem is the same when using MMC 7.1 and power vcr 2 so could this problem be down to the drivers which i am using which came with MMC 7.1

Help !

Thanks
Whizzersmith

[whizzersmith]

Does anyone have any older drivers than what come with MMC 7.1 ?

Thanks
Whizzersmith

[bungle]

The problem is most likely to be that you haven't set Wave-Input properly in you mixer settings. Double click on the loudspeaker Icon in the system tray. Choose Options, Properties and then Recording. Click on OK. Make sure that the 'Select' option is checked for the right input (Line-In).

[monoxide77]

i also have that capture card. i have yet to have any luck capturing a movie with decent results. i used PowerVCRII and i was recording from laserdisc. the file size was just way too big, using the VCD profile. the 2 hours movie would have to split into 5 CDRs! i have good video quality using Virtual Dub and the MJPEG codec, but no sound!

[BOXINGJUNKIE]

I just got the All in Wonder Radeon 8500 and had the same problems. Picture but no sound. I called them and they told me that there was a conflict between my All in Wonder and my Soundblaster card. Something to do with the way the recieve the audio. I dont know. They sent me new drivers but they didnt work. I finally got fed up and deleted all the ATI programs on my computer, drivers included, and then went back to the original disk that came with the card, installed everything again and it worked. I honestly dont know what I did to fix the problem but it will record sound now. Try installing the software again and see if that fixes the problem. It worked for me.

Boxingjunkie

[whizzersmith]

Recordong setting were set up the right way to record sound, The problem with the drivers could be i think because i am having to use the drivers that came with MMC 7.1 as i got hold of this card secondhand and did not get any drivers with it

[kracker]

I have ATI wonder ve card as well, I have had many problems with it, I have noticed that on two computers now when I go to use TMPGEnc that the movies even after using DVD2AVI is not supported, i noticed that it shows the movies as .ATI not AVI or MPEG any ideas guys?
also I have used the built in vcr that came with the car i mean the software, i used it and burned it using nero and the quality was VERY VERY poor and the audio was totally messed up, i did not run it through dvd2avi though because even if i did TMPGEnc would not support it and allow it any ideas there is there any other software I can use for this card or is it just junk?

[aguillon]

It s normal. ATI associates itself to a few supported media file types. Your file is still an AVI file. If you want to make sure, open Windws Explorer, Go to Tools/Folder Options/View and uncheck the tick box that says 'Hide file extensions for known file types'. You should now see your AVI extension again.

If you don t want ATI to open your media files, right click on a file and choose 'Open With', choose your favourite player from the list, and tick on the 'Always use this program to open these files' tick box.

[jakecb]

I HAVE HAD SIMILIAR PROBLEMS WITH ATI SOFTWARE. TRY PINNACLE
SEVEN IT SEEM TO WORK MUCH BETTER. JUST ORDERED THE UPGRADE
PINNACLE STUIO 8 WILL GIVE A REPORT TO YOU GUYS NEXT WEEK.

[kracker]

hey thanks for the fast replys I will try them both out and see what works best.

[bde]

I also have this card... Now for about a year and a half. I've had my share of problems with it, but I've found that if you are running XP, then you should use the MMC 7.6 BETA drivers, found on ATI's site. They work pretty much flawlessly, and I must say that I'm surprised at the quality that the card now has. With the latest drivers, capture resolutions are NOT limited to a max of 640x480, but to the resolution of a DVD, 720x480. This is a sort of upgrade that ATI has included for this card.

***If you look on the original packaging, you'll see that the card doesn't nativley support capturing to MPEG-1, or MPEG-2, but with the MMC 7.6 drivers, you can do both 1 and 2.... ***

I can't get sound to work with my 7500 and have tried every suggestion -every different way! I know there's just some conflict with my onboard sound. Even though i can still hear wavs, mp3s, etc. I can't hear a thing when trying to capture. In the system properties folder theres even an exclamation point over the SiS Audio Legacy Emulator. but i tried changing the configuration around but all the i/o spaces were taken over by ati! if you guys get it working please tell me how and i will do the same.
best of luck,
heidi
p.s. wizzersmith... i know ati has a horrible reputation for it's drivers, but i am having the same problem and my driver came with it. i was skeptical about downloading the updated one from ati.com just to see if it would work well, i did and no luck. have you checked to see if there is a hardware conflict?

[shoozleboy]

I have the ATI AIW 7500 card with the RF remote and can tell you that the volume problems you are experiencing are from the drivers conflicting with the Soundblaster...

I would record a show from TV and then the sound would go out AFTER the recording was done.. so if I wanted to record 2 shows, I would have to reboot the machine in order to get the sound back....

I updated to the beta drivers (running xp prof. o/s) for the MMC and it seemed to have taken care of the problem... as well as adding the DVD resolution for captures...

As far as the 2 hour capture being the size of 6 cdr's - I have noticed right away that the card defaults to an uncompressed setting for the captures... half hour shows would be around 1.8 gigs of space when recorded... not a big concern for me as that machine is used only for capture and ripping... I use another machine for encoding and editing and just transfer the files over to it via the LAN connection...

[stevech]

OK, I have an ATI TV Wonder VE, SB Live Value (on a Dell 4400), and use PowerVCR II 3.0.

I've only had the VE for a couple of weeks and PowerVCR for a few days, here is my experience:

1. The ATI MMC and driver, both released and beta (7/22/02 ??) has intermitten video problem (I have a NVidia Geforce 2 MX400), which is acknowledged on their KB. The problem is video scrambled (like you are watching a scrambled cable station). They have no fix for it (yet) but some of the user suggested work around do work (go into video setup and change your color depth, does not matter what it is, just change it). That kind of suggest to me there is some sort of initialization problem. Audio appeared to be problem free in either version.

2. There is no video problem with PowerVCR II, however, there is an audio problem, also intermitten. Sometimes when I go into setup and get back out (even if I change nothing, or just hit cancel), my audio will be gone. Sometimes, even just exit and restart PowerVCR will cause lost of audio, the only way to get back audio is to reboot. I have not investigate this as I am using Creative's last drivers, and some had complaint that this set of drivers does not work on the Dell SB cards. So far, I had no other problems except for this PowerVCR thing.

3. Just started to try capture some old VCR tapes via the VE and the SB. Sound worked fine, video is OK with obvious dropped frames, not big time jumps, but obvious enough that you would not miss it.

I am a total newbie at this and as the VE is cheap, and I brought it mostly as a learning tool, so far it has not been bad. I need to find out what can I do to fix this frame dropping thing (I am capturing to MPEG1), I have shut down most of the stuff on task bar and my system should be "hefty" enough (P4 1.7G, 640MB, 40MB 7200HD).

>I have shut down most of the stuff on task bar and my system should be "hefty" enough (P4 1.7G, 640MB, 40MB 7200HD).
Hi steve... hehe 40 meg hd huh? remember when that was top of the line? i know what you mean though. im a newbie too and you're in the right place. these people know their stuff and some of them are really helpful. patrickm saved me from having a breakdown... ati's manual said to hook up an audio wire from the motherboard to the aiw 7500. no sound. posted my problem and he figured it out. there was also a conflict with my sound card, but i had fixed that, thats why i couldn't understand why is wasn't working. have you checked out the system properties? any conflicts? my user manual was worthless... it actually cased problems.. theres a first. i'm rambling and have a 9am class tomm but i might be able to help.... try the control panel and check for any "!"
good luck
heidi

[stevech]

>>hehe 40 meg hd huh?<<

Look at that!! I have 600MB more memory than HD space . For a first try (total newbie) and a bottom line cheapo ATI VE, I am actually quite happy with just moderate frame drops. Somewhere in this section, somebody mentioned that the latest WinDVR (Intervideo) appears to have much better performance than either MMC or PowerVCR. Will download the trial later on and give it a spin.

[sadblack]

I have a problem too with this card.I installed xp pro and latest driver from ati site.For capture i use borgtv pro.But when i try to capture with divx codec 5.0.2 it start to drop a lot of frames and i really don't know why.The setting for codec is OK.On windows millenium it works great but on xp don't work.If somebody know were is the problem please help me.

[stevech]

Downloaded Intervideo's trial version of WinDVR, it seemed to be the most problem free of the 3 (PowerVCR II, MMC 7.6 WinDVR II). There's no video or audio problem on TV playback, and there is no noticable drop frames during VHS capture. The only problem I have so far is when I am capturing from VHS, the volume is extremely low (no such problem when playing TV, volume is just fine).

[mcorpse]

From my experience, this comes from the audio crossbar driver not linking the tuner properly. Try using VirtualVCR and dork with the "second video crossbar" settings so that it's "Tuner" to "Audio" or summin like that. I can't really remember all that well how to do it, but you should be able to figure it out.

[Bic]

sadblack, Did you try what bde said? My card is back in my ME machine because it didn't work in xp pro. But after the holidays I'm going to try What bde said.