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P. Jayant
I have been using the Radeon 8500 DV video card under XP on my Pentium IV
PC quite satisfactorily for the last few years with the 6.13.10.3286
drivers for Display, Control Panel and video capture.
Some months ago, I installed a DVD Writer for capturing directly on DVD and
installed Nero and SonyVision software which came along with the DVD
Writer. Even with those software packages, which recognized the video
capture device, I have captured whole 2 hour movies quite
satisfactorily.
When DirectX 9.0b was released, I installed it on my PC as required for
capture directly to DVD. .But when I opened, recently, the MMC 7.7.0.1 to
capture a live program from the Cable TV as I had done several times earlier
and found that the MMC was no more having the TV Tuner functionality.
Only capture from Composite VCR or S-Video sources was left under MMC
with the title Video-in, in place of the earlier title of TV. Removing the
drivers
and MMC and reinstalling the earlier versions of software and MMC all over
again has not worked
I got a feedback on the ati videocards newsgroup, saying
"DirectX 9.0b, which has a now well-known - or long-forgotten - bug in
that
it breaks PAL (and, I think, SECAM) tuners. The likelihood is that you've
installed DX 9.0b, possibly with a game or application that requires it.
There are fixes for the bug, but the simplest solution is to upgrade to
DirectX 9.0c, which has no such problem.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/, just in case you're
unaware of where to get it."
When I tried to download the DirectX 9.0c file from the Microsoft site, I
got only a small file of about 400 KB and I was asked to click on it. When I
did, the download for the full DirectX 9.0c did not start but I only got a
response saying "finished".
Does this mean that my system does not require the DirectX 9.0c? If it is
so, why doesn't the Microsoft response say so? And then why have I lost the
TV functionality after installing DirectX 9.0b, suspected to lack support
for PAL
in DirectX 9.0b?
P. Jayant
PC quite satisfactorily for the last few years with the 6.13.10.3286
drivers for Display, Control Panel and video capture.
Some months ago, I installed a DVD Writer for capturing directly on DVD and
installed Nero and SonyVision software which came along with the DVD
Writer. Even with those software packages, which recognized the video
capture device, I have captured whole 2 hour movies quite
satisfactorily.
When DirectX 9.0b was released, I installed it on my PC as required for
capture directly to DVD. .But when I opened, recently, the MMC 7.7.0.1 to
capture a live program from the Cable TV as I had done several times earlier
and found that the MMC was no more having the TV Tuner functionality.
Only capture from Composite VCR or S-Video sources was left under MMC
with the title Video-in, in place of the earlier title of TV. Removing the
drivers
and MMC and reinstalling the earlier versions of software and MMC all over
again has not worked
I got a feedback on the ati videocards newsgroup, saying
"DirectX 9.0b, which has a now well-known - or long-forgotten - bug in
that
it breaks PAL (and, I think, SECAM) tuners. The likelihood is that you've
installed DX 9.0b, possibly with a game or application that requires it.
There are fixes for the bug, but the simplest solution is to upgrade to
DirectX 9.0c, which has no such problem.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/, just in case you're
unaware of where to get it."
When I tried to download the DirectX 9.0c file from the Microsoft site, I
got only a small file of about 400 KB and I was asked to click on it. When I
did, the download for the full DirectX 9.0c did not start but I only got a
response saying "finished".
Does this mean that my system does not require the DirectX 9.0c? If it is
so, why doesn't the Microsoft response say so? And then why have I lost the
TV functionality after installing DirectX 9.0b, suspected to lack support
for PAL
in DirectX 9.0b?
P. Jayant