Selecting capture card and installation - which ATI All In Wonder?
 

Hello all,
Im hoping to get some pointers on the best of these 3 capture cards i have:

1. Radeon 2006 edition 256mb (which i believe its a 9600 card?? please correct me)
2. 9600 128mb
3. 9800 pro 128mb

I assumed the 2006 edition is best because its the newest? and has the most ram. (no idea about processing power compared to the others) so i tried installing it. at first i used 10.2 catalyst and wdm drivers from AMD and mmc 8.8, but i ended up with the capture driver not working (ATI T200 unified AVstream driver) it says this device cannot start (code 10). i couldn't seem to find the ATI uninstall tool on the net so i used Revo uninstaller. then i tried 6.11 catalyst installer, wdm driver from 180-v01084-100 zip file and mmc 9.02 and ended up with the same issue.

any advice?

Thank you,
Bill

the ram makes no difference for capture - that is for video graphics
some users have had interference issues with the 2006 and the later 9000 series.
they are all about the same card.

try this:
unistall all ATI software - manually though the control panel.
restart
run CCleaner registry cleaner multiple times until it finds nothing
restart
do a fresh install of the ATI software - drivers first then MMC

For video, 32 MB RAM is the same as 512 MB, as far as the computer is concerned.

The 2006 edition is actually not compliant with many systems, as it's an 8x only AGP board (4x/8x?). Most slots are 2x/4x AGP. So be very sure you computer can use it. We prefer the 9000, 9200, 9800 and the 7x00 boards. Some of the 8x00 had and 9600 had shielding issues. The whole model lines was not effected, but a lot of individual cards were.

The are older/legacy cards, pre-AMD. Use drivers of that era. You made a mistake. Clean the system of ATI software, and try again.

All the suggested drivers are here: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...der-hacks.html

Good luck. :)

Ok Thank you both for the quick replies.
My AGP is 8x but i will be going with the 9800 pro as you suggest. clean it then go 6.11 catalyst then mmc 9.02 correct?

Thanks

That should work. :congrats:

Ok weird,

9800 is installed and i went to install catalyst and it says "INF error video driver not found." I hit ok and then, "unable to complete install. try to setup display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup."
I tried to install only the display driver first, but no difference.

I installed the legacy 10.2 display driver only without the CC and it installed fine.
I then tried to install the WDM driver only from the 6.11 it installed fine.
went back to the 6.11 CC setup and tried to install display driver and CC and ended up with the same INF error.
lol...again went back to the 10.2 driver and used the full install with the CC this time. all good.
everything looks good in the windows manager.
installed MMC 9.02 and it all seems to work together just fine so far.
do you think i will have issues down the road with new and old drivers mixed together?
i should use mpeg-4 with MMC and huffy in virtualdub correct?

sorry for the step by step, i was typing as i was doing the installs thinking i was going to run into issues, although i havent tried to actually capture yet.

Again, Thank you:o

The newer display (graphics) driver is fine. Go ahead and leave that as 10.x. It's the WDM part that matters for capture.

Never captures MPEG-4. It's terrible. Capture MPEG-2 or AVI only.
- Huffyuv is better, with post-encode, especially on VHS.
- But MPEG-2 can be fine, depending on the source (cable, satellite, etc). Or high bitrate 15Mb/s Blu-ray specs from VHS tapes.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

The later boards are usually AGP 4x/8x and keyed for 1.5v AGP slots. The 0.8v signalling specified in AGP 3.0 never got much traction since it came out right before PCIe came on the market. All cards should support 1.5v signaling and work on AGP4X motherboards.

Nice AGP reference, Thanks.
Finally got around to capture with mmc 9.02 mpeg-2, and about 15 min in, it just hangs and I cant close the program. I must restart computer (Pentium 4 3.0ghz XP Pro SP3). I also have video soap set to heavy w/ 60% comb filter. haven't had much time to play with it. could I run video soap as a filter after the capture, or is it a capture only filter?

Did you ever get you AIT AIW setup working again?
For the above issue, it may be as simple as disabling the VideoSoap. You need to try it, and see what happens.

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I dont remember exactly what the cause was, i think the newer MMC was causing it. i installed 8.xx and its been fine ever since.