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| Newstech |
| Posted: Oct 8 2002, 11:41 PM |
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The other day kcerfb posted about using the BT878 drivers; the current topic concerned the WinTV card.
I have a WinTV Go on Win98 SE, and haven't had any luck with alternate drivers, since they all seem to kill my ability to use the Hauppauge software. The sourceforge install bombs midway through. I was hoping that different drivers would help me to capture either in VirtualDub or in VideoWave 4. VW fails to recognize composite input using Hauppauge WDM drivers. Any suggestions?
And speaking of which, I don't know how to read the warnings about VirtualDub being VFW specific. Does that mean I'll lose performance under the WDM WinTV drivers? I had removed them, but now I can't access tuner under VirtualDub and some other apps, which is a drag.
--Newstech
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| Kippesoep |
| Posted: Oct 9 2002, 01:37 PM |
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The btwincap drivers are excellent. Do you actually need to use the Hauppauge software? If you're just using the to watch the telly, then either use something like Dscaler or an actual television 
The warnings about VD being VfW specific serve to inform you that if you have only a WDM driver installed, VD won't work with it. There is the WDM->VfW wrapper, but performance can (and often does) suffer. For best performance, have a native VfW driver on Win9x (WinNT/2K/XP only support WDM). |
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| Newstech |
| Posted: Oct 13 2002, 02:47 PM |
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Well, I keep hearing how the btwincap drivers are excellent, but I have spent hours and hours trying to get them to work on my machine, and keep going back to the Hauppauge drivers.
First off, btwincap install bombs out 3/4 of the way through on Win 98 SE, with some snide comments from the author about the OS. Well, if he knows that, perhaps he'd want to tell people beforehand not to even try.
Then I tried a manual install using parameters from BTSpy, and got totally bizarre results. Video appeared in my capture window, but it appeared to be posterized.
I think I'm giving up. Strangely, I seem to have inadvertently achieved one of my goals -- being able to capture at greater than 240 lines from WinTV card. I think some generic Conexant component remained in my setup. I probably couldn't duplicate in a million years.
I do have one question for WinTV users: Should it be possible to have both Hauppauge VFW and some WDM driver available on the same machine, and choose depending on the capture application? I have never been able to make them coexist.
--Newstech
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| orion404 |
| Posted: Oct 15 2002, 04:06 PM |
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Took me many, many hours to work thru all this detail also but eventually got it working.
I'm running WdwsME and I had both WDM & VFW drivers installed and was able to capture with the WinTV card but getting strange error messages in some of my capture software and eventually deleted the WDM drivers. Now, I've just got the VFW drivers onboard.
I don't use the bundled WinTV capture software because it lacks a 'timer' or file size report which is why I'm now working with VD. |
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