MMC and VIVO card

[John Russell]

My ASUS 9600xt captures jerky video and it has been sugggested I try MMC.
This software captures using the TV applet and the TV wizard insists I don't
have a TV Tuner, which I don't, and so dosn't run to set up the Video-IN.
Is anyone running MMC with a VIVO card and how did you get around this
problem?

 

[Me]

If your running Directx 9.0b then look for the Directx 9.0b "patch" to fix
this.

Look on the ATI site.

 

[patrickp]

My ASUS 9600xt captures jerky video and it has been sugggested I try MMC.
This software captures using the TV applet and the TV wizard insists I don't
have a TV Tuner, which I don't, and so dosn't run to set up the Video-IN.
Is anyone running MMC with a VIVO card and how did you get around this
problem?

I have the same problem; I've tried MMCs 8.8 and 7.7, John: neither will
work with this card.

The included ASUS Digital VCR software is very poor: badly thought out and
crappy picture, for PAL TV signals, anyway. I tried some other VCR apps,
and the only one which gives a good PAL picture is Showshifter, from
http://www.showshifter.com/. Horribly clunky interface, but nice picture
(almost as good as the much maligned MMC with a card that works with it...)
and at least things like the Line In input activating when you boot the app
and muting when you close it work.

I don't know if the poor picture I got off all the other apps I tried is
because I'm in the UK and their makers haven't put much effort into using
non-NTSC signals, but the fact that I can't use it now makes me really
appreciate the MMC TV app.

If you're in an NTSC area, it might well be worth investigating something
like CyberLink's PowerVCR app. The interface and function seems excellent,
but for me, the picture's rubbish. Haven't tried capturing wth this card
yet.

patrickp

 

[John Russell]

I have the same problem; I've tried MMCs 8.8 and 7.7, John: neither will
work with this card.

The included ASUS Digital VCR software is very poor: badly thought out and
crappy picture, for PAL TV signals, anyway. I tried some other VCR apps,
and the only one which gives a good PAL picture is Showshifter, from
http://www.showshifter.com/. Horribly clunky interface, but nice picture
(almost as good as the much maligned MMC with a card that works with it...)
and at least things like the Line In input activating when you boot the app
and muting when you close it work.

I don't know if the poor picture I got off all the other apps I tried is
because I'm in the UK and their makers haven't put much effort into using
non-NTSC signals, but the fact that I can't use it now makes me really
appreciate the MMC TV app.

If you're in an NTSC area, it might well be worth investigating something
like CyberLink's PowerVCR app. The interface and function seems excellent,
but for me, the picture's rubbish. Haven't tried capturing wth this card
yet.

patrickp

Well after much experimentation I have solved my jerky capture problems. I
am now using Asus DVCR under windows98se (which I dual boot with windowsxp).
The picture was crap until I installed the seperate WDM driver which asus
supplies on the CD to overwrite the one installed by the the ATI 3.10
driver. This also solved the DVCR crashing and losing saved settings.


Oh ,and I am using the PAL version in the UK.

 

[Shitscared]

My ASUS 9600xt captures jerky video and it has been sugggested I try MMC.
This software captures using the TV applet and the TV wizard insists I don't
have a TV Tuner, which I don't, and so dosn't run to set up the Video-IN.
Is anyone running MMC with a VIVO card and how did you get around this
problem?

I can't get mmc to work with the video input on anything later than catalyst
3.8's on 9600 Pro. I even tried putting the 3.8 wdm drivers into the 3.10's
with no luck.