ATI All-in-Wonder 128 distorted scanlines at the bottom

[kbehel]

I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 (yes, its several years old). I've been messing with it for a while on my old system (466MHz) but never had enough horsepower to do 640x480 capture.
I've noticed that I always get some distorted scanlines at the bottom of the screen when using VirtualDub for capture from Composite or S-Video sources. I don't get this in ATI's own worthless capture program (just audio that gets out of sync with the video). The rest of the video looks good - there's just a band about 5% wide near the bottom that is distorted. I've been getting this for a long time under any capture
resolution.
Has anyone seen this before? Is there a way around this? It seems odd that ATI's own program doesn't do this from the same sources, but Virtualdub does. I haven't looked for this in other capture programs because they always loose audio sync.

thanks,

kevin

[Nelson37]

I have same card. Have not noticed difference between ATI software and Vdub, but only time I have seen this effect is when capturing from VHS. Do you have the "capture cropped video" switch on in MMC?

Also, on the audio de-synch, I had the same problem until I realized that it was the playback software, not the video. Out-of-synch files would play perfectly with WinDVD or on my APEX. ATI player, STHSDVD, some others would not play in synch.

[Fred©]

Yes,

The problem certainly is the SOURCE, not the ATI AIW 128 Pro... I have the same problem when I capture from VCR (VHS tapes)... The VCR heads are not aligned to read the tapes and the botton lines are messed...

I only need to capture with cropped lines enabled in virtualdub and give a 5 or 10 number in botton field... or you can fix it later, in tmpgenc, using black borders in top and botton fields, when converting to MPEG...

You cant see the error in MMC because it already has an option to see (not capture) the movie with borders cropped (look at the preferences/options).

Fred©

[kbehel]

I can't seem to find the "cropped video" option in MMC. I'm using version 7.1, downloaded from ATI's web site for Win XP. Which version has this. I'll check out the audio issue again or try cropping in Virtualdub.

thanks,

Kevin

[bhutchins]

burn to a disk, and they wont show up on a stand alone, only the computer