Capturing with a Geforce 4 ti 4200

[Remedy]

Hello,

I was wondering how I would go about capturing video off my camcorder using the tv out/video in s-video port on my geforce 4.

From what Sandra sisoft tells me the manufacturer of the card is Nividia aswell as the chipset. Thank you.

Hope somone can help, or has had this problem before.

[Mythos2002]

Hello,
I have the same type card. Mine is the AGP 4x 128mb DDR Gainward XP 650 Golden Sample. Mine came with a spider cable (don't know its real name). The cable connects into the video card's VIVO connector on one end and the other end is actually split into four cables with S-Video in, S-Video out, Composite in, and Composite out. Did your card come with any cables like that? If so, plug the cable into your cards VIVO connector and use an RCA composite of S-Video cable to connect your cam to your card's adaptor cable. On mine, the output connectors are yellow and the input connectors are black. Your card also should have come with some capturing software. If not, look in the tools section on the left of this page for some programs.

I hope this helps.
Mythos

[SiCN]

I've got the same card. And everytime I connect it to a source (like VHS or Xbox) I get only black/white picture Any ideas?

Also, does one know how to deactivate macrovision, cuz I wanna digitalize all the old Disney tapes I got at home.

[Fozzee]

Are u sure its macrovision???
Do u use an s-video connection???
If you do try a composite (video phono) connection.
Most VCRs are incompatible with s-video.

Fozzee

[Damfino]

Black/white probably means that it's choosing the wrong input - if you're using composite, go to video, source, and select that instead of S-Video or tuner.

[ChrisX]

I got the same video card, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 GPU. This one is subjected to macrovision from a a DVD or VHS source.

I really don't know what is your problem with black and white? With macrovision, I get a white stripe across the captured video, very annoying indeed. So, I have to use a WinTV card in another computer to get around it or the rip a DVD.

There are many ways you can crack the macrovision. Disable it, if possible on the DVD player is one way to do it.

[jpsulliv]

Are you sure it's Macrovision that's giving you the big nasty white bar? I captured some homemade videos - no Macrovision, of course - and I had the same problem. Sometimes the white bar goes away after several seconds, sometimes not. Sometimes it won't show up for awhile, then it pops up.

From an older post here, I discovered that the newer drivers seem to be causing the problem. I installed an older version of the Nvidia capture driver - 1.08 I believe - and I don't get the white bar. I've also noticed that there seems to be something wrong with the way it reports version numbers, so it's misleading.

This is highly annoying. The driver has been updated several times since the white bar showed up, yet it's still there.

[ChrisX]

Are you sure it's Macrovision that's giving you the big nasty white bar?

Yes, I am absolutely sure it's Macrovision is giving me the white bar across the captured video. I've seen evidence of this when I captured a DVD known to have no Macrovision. A VHS copy is possible from this DVD. With this DVD, the capture into the HD as successful and no problem.

It is only the commerical DVD and VHS movies with Macrovision as the problem. Home made videos no problem. I have been told before that a different or older capture driver may fix and overide the macrovision.

[Damfino]

If it's a solid white horizontal bar, it's the drivers. The only known revision of the nVidia capture drivers that doesn't do it is 1.08 - search the forums a little for links to find it. You'll have to completely uninstall the current drivers first.

I think the white bar only happens when capturing somewhat "dirty" video - I never had it happen when recording directly off digital cable, but as soon as I tried to capture VHS, there it was.

[musher70]

anyone know how to turn video input on, on card in windows?
have gainward 650xp ti4200 w/ vivo, installed wincoder/
producer, only get black screen, and i cant seem to enable
capture anywhere with any capturing program, i have XP..
tried premiere/dvd w/s /many others

[crahak]

These white lines ARE caused by macrovision detection. It detects macrovision up to v7.01. I don't know otherwise if the captures with the newer drivers are better... one could always change the SAA7108E for a 7109 (which doesn't have the "feature") or perhaps make the drivers read a logical 0 on bit 1 of the status byte video decoder (address 1Fh)... It can't be hidden so deeply in the capture driver... Anyways, I have not yet received the card (should have it next week) and I might not use it to capture... Good luck to all

[I@n S]

Hello.

Remedy:
All you have to do is connect the camcorder using the a s-video cable to connect to the VIVO cable. See your Manual for what the VIVO cable looks like and get the cable from the video card box.
Plug the s-video cable from your camcorder to the BLACK s-video plug on the VIVO cable, then plug the VIVO into the video card.
Next you should have video editing software installed. (InterVideo WinProducer I think) Open the program and select import device. Then press the TV button. Next should pop up is the properties bar. (If not press ctrl+P) change Video source to s-video. Video standards you'll have to change according to your video. E.G Australia (& most of european countrys) uses PAL and America (& Japian etc) uses NTSC.
The rest of the settings you'll have to work out yourself.
When your ready press play on your camcorder and press the Red button WinProducer in to record. When done press stop and it'll ask you to save your video somewhere.

Hopes this helps

As for the solid white horizontal bar has anyone got it to work yet?
driver changes realy fix it?

[crahak]

I just installed it yesterday, but I made sure to use the v1.08 drivers. I used virtualdub_vcr, and after selecting capture card and s-video input, I was up and running. No solid white lines (macrovision cause them). Everything works perfectly. I capture at 720x480 since it seems to be the one with the better results. (I have to crop 6 pixels left, 6 at the right, and 10 at the bottom then I bicubic resize). Forgot to say, it gives me better reults than every ATI cards I've tried so far (rage fury pro and AIW 7500). So I'm not complaining.