Personal Cinema/GeForce 4 capture problem

[DJRumpy]

For some reason, when I'm trying to capture via the composite connector on the personal cinima box, I get a white strip, running horizontally, right through my capture. The stripe does not show up if I use the coax input from the same source.

I'm guessing the composite input is blown, but I wanted a second, or fifth opinion before taking it in for exchange.

Tnx

[bigrig]

You know, I was just about to post asking about that, too.

Trying to capture using Geforce4 Ti4200, Nvidia WDM 1.16 capture drivers, and composite in.

I'll get that white box/stripe across the middle, if the source video is a little garbled. I figured it's an issue with the capture drivers, and I'll just have to live with it, but I'm not sure.

Matt

[spooky]

It kind of sounds like the Macrovision,
Try connecting something other then the TV using composite in connector ( VCR, Playstation or Camcorder ) and see what will happen.

[jwilson56]

I have the same problem with an Evga TI-4200 video card. I am trying to capture home movies from a VCR. Weird 4200 problems I guess... Evga was no help at all.

John

[DJRumpy]

My source was from VCR (I'm too cheap to invest in an SVideo VCR..why bother?).
If others are having the problem, maybe it's capture related, and not hardware.

[Greyhair]

I had this problem and it was macrovision. When I loaded the old 1.08 wdm drivers, it went away

[jwilson56]

Well I have heard that the 1.08 drivers help but for some reason when I try and use them they will not find my Evga TI-4200 card (nothing listed under device manager).

John

[DJRumpy]

You know, now that I think of it, I did upgrade my WDM driver set. My old drivers wouldn't work with my TV tuner software, but I can always use virtual dub if I want to watch tv. I'll give it a shot with the older version.

[SLASH39000]

I have the same problem when capturing from vhs.
I got a gemx460 vid card
Did it work by going back to the old drivers
and how would i switch to an older driver

[jwilson56]

Well I tried my camcorder direct and it captures fine. Seems that certain poorer quality video sources are detected as Macromedia. Maybe the 1.08 drivers were less sensitive. Wow all the hours spent only to find the answer here. Great job guys. Too bad the Evga support techs weren't as good.

John