For video card experts ( ATI Radeon 9100 vivo )

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For video card experts ( ATI Radeon 9100 vivo )
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HI..


My OS is windows xp.
I have video card ATI Radeon 9100 vivo 128 DDR + fly video 2000 TV capture card .

I work in multimedia field .
I use adobe premiere 6.5 to edit my work.

The fly video card comes with a video capture software ( which is life view ) the soft ware works fine .

The ati card use Powerdirector pro 2.0 me .

After installing the software – power director - each time I click on software icon the software don't launch.
I tried to install the same software on another os : windows me , it doesn't work too and gives me an error message ( there is an error on powerdirector.exe and the software will close ).
I tried the software on windows 2000 it works !!.

I install and remove the software several times on the main pc ( windows xp) and I still have the same problem.

I tried to upgrade this version to 2.5 and after 2 hours to download the upgrade from the cyberlink site , when I extracted the upgrade I had a message that my version must be a retail version to be upgrade ??!

My questions:

- what is the reason of this problem – the power director don't launch – I tried to use the compatibility mode but nothing changes .

- can I use another software with the ati card to capture and record my final work to a VCR.

- how can I use this card to import and export my final work from and to a VCR – I can use life view only to import and capture movies but with this card I need to learn how to use it.

Thank you…

 

[gcunning]

Have you checked if the program is XP compatable?
Try TUCOWS, there is a free/shareware program that does video capture. You might want to check with ATI to get their response via email, as to weither or not the have program you could download, or one they would reccomend that is known to be compatible with the 9100 and XP, they might be able to at lest get you upgraded to 2.5 (good thing to try first I think)

Worst case - if they guarentee it will work, pay to go to the 2.5 retail version.

 

[dakota81]

Try going to ATI's website and grabbing their Multimedia Center software, version 7.1. I've been trying to work out video capturing with my nVidia vivo card, it came with WinProducer which is sub-par quality, I tried some trial versions of other software, such as Visual Studio which is absolute crap quality, virtualdub was crap recording quality, and some other shareware/freeware programs which I could never get working properly.

The ATI software was distributed with their pci tv tuner cards, and I did used to have one though it now sits in a box somewhere in my room, but anyways.

ATI's software is great quality if you keep to mpeg-1 encoding at 352x480, other settings show bugs in the resulting file.

If you get MMC 7.1, install just the tv software, and it will set up for the tv tuner, but you can skip past and still record from the composite-in.

 

[dakota81]

Oh yeah, the reason for 352x480 setting is based off of the rough pixel size of vcr outputs. You'll see something like 320x240 for the "pixel size" of a vcr, with cheaper vcrs showing less quality, but with the interlacing of the video, a height of 480 is considered optimal.

Plus 352x480 is one of the dvd standards.

And you don't want to go over in size when recording because of the speed concerns.

Once the video is captured, you can then resize it to whatever you want while keeping the best quality.