ATI MMC 8 prevents copying protected VHS tapes. Workaround?

[presto]

I installed ATI MultimediaCenter 8 and now I can't copy many VHS tapes. A message pops up saying they are protected. I knew that this was part of MMC 8 but figured someone would come up with a hack. Any Yet?

(p.s. I am only interested in backing up tapes that I own)

[txpharoah]

Revert to a previous version. Or buy a time-base corrector. Anyway, I'd have to say I wasn't happy with MMC 8 anyhow. I went back to 7.5.

[Coopervid]

Most likely it's not MMC8.1 but the drivers loaded. Ther is a patch for the drivers that helped with my WIN2000 drivers for an AiW 128 Pro. Should hopefully also work with newr cards / drivers.
go to

www.doom9.org

Look under "Download" "Support Utils" and expand to "show all support utils". Here is the ATIMacrovisonRemover.

[presto]

Thanks both of you. Luckily coppervids suggestion worked. I was aware of the macorovision patch but I thought I was dealing with something new since I never had my computer refuse to copy a tape before.

Thanks

[Amish Electrician]

Ok im dumb here i did not know i could get around macovision. Im using mmc 7.5 & it does not work with macroV how do i make it work?

[Amish Electrician]

oopps i ment mmc 7.7 not 7.5

[Coopervid]

It works the same way for ALL versions of MMC as not MMC prevents recording from Macrovision protected material but the Windows drivers. Just apply the same patch as recommended before.