AIW CAPTURE/RECEPTION PROBLEMS

[madlove]

Using All In Wonder Radeon to record live TV I get 30 secs of footage which then gets stuck in a stutter loop for the rest of the file. This happens with MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI about 90 percent of the time.

Also TV reception with the card produces a picture which intermitently shifts between 2 different brightness levels. Really annoying and unwatchable/unrecordable.

Any ideas anyone?

System:
1200 Athlon
256 MB Ram
60 GB Maxtor 1200rpm HD
Gigabyte motherboard

[patrickm]

it's macrovision. (copy protection) search for it. there's some programs that help in some instances but generally the only way around it is an external hardware box to remove it

[madlove]

Thanx Patrick. But is macrovision used on live analogue TV broadcasts (reception via antenna)? This brightness flickering thing makes even watching TV a pain. And is it responsible for my inability to capture more than 30 secs of TV?

[patrickm]

might just be bad reception. is it an amplified antenna? i don't know, the only channels that use macrovision are MTV, HBO, cinemax, etc, and a few random satellite channels. broadcast tv shouldn't. maybe it's just getting fooled into thinking it's there though.

if the capture loops it's macrovision. if the brightness varies it could be that or just a bad AGC (auto gain control)

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