Complete newby question...AIW 9800 pro card...capturing VHS

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Steve Henderson

I have just built a new PC with:
1) Gigabyte Titan series motherboard - GA-81k1100 with 800 mhz FSB
2) 1 Gig of Dual Channel RAM
3) Intel P4 (2.8 ghz)
4) 120 gig SATA 7,500 rpm HD
5) ATI AIW 9800 pro graphics with 128mb
6) Liteon DVD burner and separate DVD player.
7) 400 Watt Power Supply

I started out being able to capture VHS and play it back. However, at
regular VHS quality, it droped a frame like clock-work every 6 seconds.
That's with the network unhooked, and lots of other stuff killed. None
of that seems to make any difference. Also, I have Ultra-DMA running on
my HD as noted in the ATI manual. EVEN when I decrease the resulution to
the lowest setting, it still does the same thing. Of course, that makes
it drop 10 frames per minute, which the leaflet (don't dare call it a
manual) says is not good.

Also, today, something happened, and now when I try to play back the
video in either Magix or in the XP built-in software, I get only about
1/8 inch of video at the top of the playback window, and the rest is
solid green (or blank). Previously recorded video plays fine. I musta
done something in record settings to screw it up. Any ideas?

I know this is a lot of very stupid questions, but hey - the manual for
this think assumes a lot of knowledge that I don't have (yet). BTW - is
there a website dedicated to newby (and other) ATI AIW help?

Regards,
Steve Henderson
 
Have you tried using Roxio's new media creator 7? i just installed it
last night, and it seems to work very well with my 9000 pro card.
All while surfing the net, and Norton AV running in the background.
But if I try capturing in avi format using Divx, then i may get a
dropped frame from time to time, which i feel has something to do with
compression than anything else.

My system is:

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 5.00.3315.1000 (IE 5.01 SP2 - Windows 2000)
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4HT, 3000 MHz (3.75 x 800)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000(-L) v2.0 (5 PCI, 1 AGP,
4 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale i865PE
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (11/18/03)
Video Adapter ALL-IN-WONDER 9000 - Secondary (Omega 2.5.30) (64 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon 9000 (RV250)
Audio Adapter SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio (Gigabyte)
Disk Drive WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S (DVD+RW:4x/4x, DVD-RW:4x/2x,
DVD-ROM:12x, CD-RW:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 114463 MB (92441 MB free)
WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0 (SATA)
 
I have an AIW 9600 and do not have the dropped frames problem you describe.
It works fine when I capture no matter which program I use to do the
capture. However, I do have the problem of the green screen when I am trying
to capture commercial VHS tapes which I own. No matter which program I use
for the capture (i've tried 4 different ones) I get the green screen.

I am not sure but I believe it may be due to Macrovision copy protection. I
found a patch which claims to solve the Macrovision problem but it did not
work for me. www.afterdawn.com has a discussion forum 'VHS TAPES TO DVD'
where this topic is discussed quite extensively. However, no one has
mentioned the green screen problem, your message is the first I have seen
describing the green screen. Some of the messages indicate a video
stabilizer between the VCR and PC may solve the Macrovision problem but I
have not as yet decided to try it.

Charlie
 
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