Anyone use am A-I-W ATI 7500 with MM2

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Patrick Sullivan

I still haven't solved my problem being unable to capture video directly
into Movie Maker 2 using my ATI All In Wonder VE (7500) card.

I am wondering if anybody has gotten this configuration to work? It'd be
helpful to my troubleshooting if I atl east new it was *possible*. <grin!>

So please take a second, review my system configuration isted below, and if
you are successfully capturing into MM2 using an ATI card with a similar
configuration, please post here.

ATI All-In-Wonder VE (7500, AGP) / Catalyst 3.9
NVidia GeForce4 MX440 (Jaton Video-158PCI-64Twin, PCI) / ForceWare 52.16
DirectX 9.0b
Windows XP Pro SP1
Movie Maker 2

I'm also having problems with Windows Media Encoder 9 (preview works,
encoding won't start). Anybody have WME9 working an ATI AIW card?


Thanks for your time!
Patrick
 
Hi Patrick,

I've also had lot of problems with my ATI AIW 9000Pro card, that ATI/Canada
has solved thanks to the following procedure.
Hope it will also be of some help to you.

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Download the Catalyst 3.7 drivers from our website (in fact, I've downloaded
the 7.94 version. I think it will work as well with the last one available
on their web site) at:
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html (Download the
High Speed driver bundle).

Before preceding, download a program called Driver Cleaner from
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/. Install it.

1. Uninstall the ATI Display & ATI Control Panel + DVD Decoder + MMC + DAO
+ MMC 7.9 + Remote Wonder + Hyrdravision (if installed).
Located in the ADD\REMOVE Programs under the control panel

Go to Start, Run, type in msconfig
- choose selective startup
- uncheck load startup items
- click on the services tab
- select hide all MS services
- de-select the remaining items
- apply, OK, restart the system.

2. Restart into SAFEMODE.

Windows XP/2000 - Tap the F8 key once prompted

3. Open Device Manger. Uninstall any display adapters listed. Don't
restart.

4. Run Driver Cleaner. Select the Tools menu, and select Cab Cleaner.
Make sure Driver.cab is selected. Hit the clean button.

5. Once Cab Cleaner has completed, close it. In the Driver Cleaner
program, make sure ATI is selected. Hit the clean button. Select ATI WDM.
Hit the clean button. Select ATI MMC. Hit the clean button.

Restart back to Normal Windows.

6. Allow the system to redetect the display adapter. Under Windows 2000
or XP, cancel the install.

7. Install the display drivers (Catalyst 3.7 or the version you have
downloaded). Restart.
Put in the ATI CD. Run the Install. Select Custom Install when given
the option. Uncheck the ATI Control Panel, Display Drivers, and Multimedia
Drivers. Proceed, and restart when prompted.

NOTE: You re-run msconfig and restore the Normal Startup once everything
has been reinstalled.

NOTE2: DirectX 9.0b is not compatible with some TV standards (France and
maybe a few others). MS has issued a patch in august to solve the problem.

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Thanks!
That's looks like a fun weekend project <grin!>.

If it works, I'll post back.
 
Very interesting. Following your advice, I spent many hours
uninstalling/reinstalling picking through the registry and system restore,
and I stumbled across a work-around to my capture problem! I'm posting here
in case others have similar issues or some have further thoughts on how to
fix this probably.

FIRST ONE QUESTION: Anybody else use an AGP ATI ALL-IN-WONDER CARD and a
second PCI video adapter card?

The symptoms:

- WDM Capture and VFW2WDM Capture (VidCap32, Yahoo Messenger, Movie Maker 2)
only show a "green screen" when capturing from any source (TV, Composite,
S-Video).

- Media Encoder 9 shows a perfect "preview" screen, but the Encoder won't
start (reports an "unknown" error has occured).

- ATI MMC TV Player 7.7.1 works fine, and can capture from any source.


The configuration:
ATI All-In-Wonder VE (7500, AGP) / Catalyst 3.9/3.10, WDM Capture 6.14.xx
NVidia GeForce4 MX440 (Jaton Video-158PCI-64Twin, PCI) / ForceWare 52.16
DirectX 9.0b
Windows XP Pro SP1
Movie Maker 2
Click to expand...


THE WORKAROUND:

Don't bother with all the B.S about reinstalling drivers (assuming your
drivers are up to date). The work-around is simple:
Uncheck "extend my desktop to this screen", on the Windows Display
Settings for the PCI NVIDIA card.

That's it. MM2, Yahoo, WME9 will all start working as expected. No need to
uninstall the NVIDIA drivers or physically remove the card. If you check it
again, the above programs will stop working. The nice thing about this
workaround is that it's relatively easy to switch between a big desktop
(which is why we spend the money on more screens right?) and a capture
(which is why we spend the money on the capture card). It's a pity it
doesn't work as it should though, and I welcome any further comments, ideas
or leads.

One last interesting note. My cheap USB webcam WDM capture driver doesn't
have this problem: Yahoo, and MM2 work fine, even with extended desktop
enabled. This leads me to believe the problem is within my ATI
configuration.

Hope this is useful,
Patrick
 
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