Hi guys!
I took noticed of your replies, but there a lot to read and learn/understand. I'll come back in a few after some web research to understand all this. I'm also going to try to get in touch with the guy selling the ATI 550. Should I go with the 550 for 8$ or 650 for 40$? Sorry for the double post, but I might be buying soon! Thanks again for your detailed answers! |
As I said earlier, I think the 550 looks good from what I've seen. The 650 should be avoided because of the flawed AGC even if it was free.
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Hi!
I'll go with the 550 but I'm having a hard time reaching the guy selling it. He said I'm out of town for the week, I'll call you back. Still, no call. If I go with the 550, and the xp setup, I just hope virtual dub is good with it. Thanks for your support, I'll keep you posted all (might take a while) -- merged -- Hi all! I finally got my 550! Now I'm on to the new computer build (with spare parts). Do you think I should go with XP for driver support, or Windows 7 and workaround driver issues? I know people were able to make it work (as tv tuner) but I don't know if capture features/options were affected or missing. Thanks in advance! |
Use XP for your own sanity. It's an extra capture system, so make it work best for that purpose.
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Alrighty, I will do that.
Thanks for the tip, and I'll keep you posted whenever a question comes up or to show new capture results Have a good day |
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There's a separate utility that's supposed to let you play with the 550's comb filter (and noise reduction) settings, only designed for XP and almost definitely won't work with Win7. |
Great!
I'm on the process of installing XP but it's giving me error I never heard of so I'm troubleshooting atm. I've installed so many OS without any issue. Murphy's law, I guess... Thanks again |
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Well, my system is up and running now.
FYI, had the "disk error read occured. ctrl-alt-del to restart" at boot. Finally found I had to jiggle (not sure about the word!) the sata cable! Sooooo many hours spent for a that simply fix. Anyway, new problem now. Went to the ATI support site to download drivers. Got there: http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...r=true&rev=9.7 Downloaded and installed all 3 files. Now when I start virtualdub and try to capture, bang. Computer turns off and reboot by itself. Any idea about this issue? Also, there is only an ATI software available in the windows control panel for decombing, noise etc... I have nothing at all in the start menu concerning ATI. Is this normal? I mean do ATI really sell card and no software installs when you download from their website? (only drivers) Thanks in advance Please see attachment for reference. |
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For geeks only ;) Here is the crash dump file analysis
Seems to be the following driver issue... but not sure about it atinavrr.sys ATI Unified AVStream Driver See Attachment |
I don't know one way or the other about the lack of ATI software since I never seek out or install that stuff. Even back when I was using the All-in-Wonder 128 Pro it was all third-party AVI capture for me.
I also can't speak much to the crash dump. I would guess it's a hardware problem that appears as a driver crash since the driver has raw access to the device. Possibly the card is simply broken, but I would visually check the PCI contacts, try a different slot, and then try to look for IRQ conflicts if that still doesn't work. Remove any other expansion cards that you can, disable any onboard mobo devices in BIOS that aren't essential, etc. (But write down what you changed and what the original value was!) |
Yes, I will troubleshoot the issue when possible. It is pretty time consuming hehe
Had anyone already run virtualdub on a virtual machine? I'm thinking about the windows xp mode in windows 7. I could benefit from better hardware, instead of troubleshooting a crappy Pentium 4 @ 1.6Ghz haha Thanks for your replies |
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Uncompressed AVI is 3 or more times larger file size than lossless compression, a big waste of space and time if you're posting. |
^ Yup yup. That was my interpretation of lordsmurf's post, too.
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There's no harm installing the card into your Win7 machine directly, no virtual machine, to see whether the card works at all or has a physical problem. |
The ATI 550 will work with Pentium 4 CPU's, and even with slowpoke Celerons. If I could use my old AIW 9600XT (which has more demanding system requirements than the 550 USB) and a Pentium4 1.5 GHz, you could certainly use it with your P4.
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Yes. Looking over the final product is fun. It's the details that give you headaches.
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Those halos on the Jeep shot and hockey shot could very well be from the camcorder's image sensor. My ye olde VHS camcorder footage has a ton of it, usually bright objects on a dark background. It was clearly visible on playback direct from the VCR to a CRT TV, so I can't blame a capture device on it.
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Sanlyn: comb filter is a function of the capture card hardware that can't be done in software. Though there are the de-rainbow and dot crawl removal filters fat try to reverse the damage of poor comb filtering.
For noise reduction I agree, though maybe the 550 has some amazing settings... |
Hi guys! Long time no talk!
I finally was able to have things working after 3 different builds (I have lots of stuff laying around). The CULPRIT? ATI driver found on the ATI website I was able to find a newer driver on the web for the 550, and things work A1 now. No crashing upon capture so it was no hardware problems. I'm now into the process of capturing with Lagarith. The results seem better. I will try to post unprocessed samples similar to the one before (hockey and jeep) so advanced users like you can tell if it's better or not. Good news, I have no audio sync issue now! One thing that confuses me are the comb and other setting in the ATI control panel. Do they affect the capture in virtualdub? If so, what should I use (is it default now) Thanks in advance! |
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