ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 DV

[maltre]

Hello,

I own a ATI AIW 850 DV card.
Everything works fine, but I was wondering if I was able to play/capture
both PAL and NTSC ?
I'm from Belgium and I'm capturing PAL video's, my VCR supports NTSC too,
but when trying to capture a NTSC tape, I do not get a good signal.

Does the card support both ?
If yes, anybody has experience on how to switch it ?
I've searched in the help, settings and google, but haven't found any
solution/answer ...


Greetz and thanks in advance,

- maltre

 

[erratic]

I'm from Belgium and I'm capturing PAL video's, my VCR supports NTSC too,
but when trying to capture a NTSC tape, I do not get a good signal.

For most PAL VCRs that support NTSC playback, you have to change the
broadcast standard in MMC to PAL-60. That's what worked for me if I
remeber correctly. Can't test it now, because MMC is not installed.
If your VCR supports real NTSC, change the broadcast standard to NTSC,
but it's almost always PAL-60.

By the way, the files you capture that way will have an NTSC resolution
and frame rate, for example 720x480 (NTSC DVD) at 29.97 fps.

 

[maltre]

Hi,

Thanks for the fast reply and the very usefull info!
I tried upgrading my 7.5 drivers and software to 7.7 (first 7.6, then the
7.7 update).
That messed it all up, so I'm back to 7.5.
I honestly cannot find MMC (MultiMedia Center, right ?) anywhere.

Could you tell me what I'm overlooking ?
Do I need to switch from PAL to PAL-60 (or NTSC) in ATI software or do I
need to configure the program I capture with (VirtualDub) ?

Thanks in advance,

 

[erratic]

Could you tell me what I'm overlooking ?
Do I need to switch from PAL to PAL-60 (or NTSC) in ATI software or do I
need to configure the program I capture with (VirtualDub) ?

I don't know if you can capture PAL-60 with VirtualDub, but I've done it
before with MMC. In MMC you can switch between PAL, PAL-60, NTSC, etc.
Remember that PAL-60 is 720x480 (max. resolution) at 29.97 fps. Don't
use PAL settings for PAL-60!

If VirtualDub doesn't support PAL-60 then you should install MMC.
http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonopt-xp.html
There are probably other capture apps that support PAL-60 but I haven't
tried any.