[AG-TECH] hauppauge video problems

[Ti Leggett]

Actually the problem is this. Vic can only handle Video for Windows (VfW
devices) which is an old driver style. vic can map the newer WDM drivers
to a VfW device, but it can only do that for one device. Basically, if
you have drivers that are VfW then all of them will be seen and usable
in vic. If the drivers are WDM only, then vic will pick a device and map
and that's it. Hauppage has stopped providing VfW drivers for their
cards. Osprey, however, still provides VfW drivers for their cards.

This driver issue is also why you can only have one web cam hooked up
since, I'd say, all web cams provide only WDM drivers.

Make more sense?

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 08:35, Bob Riddle wrote:
> for what it's worth - I've been down this road and gave up - while this 
> is no problem on Linux, the driver for WinXP assumes that only one WinTV 
> card will be on the system.  It cost less for a couple of Osprey100 
> cards than it did for the time I spent on trying to make this work.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> Harold Micheal Goldman wrote:
> 
> >  Does anyone know of any way to get two hauppauge WinTv video capture cards to 
> >work at the same time in Windows XP. I am creating an Access Grid Node here at 
> >the University of Southern Mississippi for Collaboration for Genomic Research. 
> >I will also be setting up similar agn's at four othe universities here in the 
> >state. I had bought the two cards on the advice of a friend that admins a agn 
> >for the computer science dept here at usm, but we cannot get both cards to work 
> >under xp.
> >
> > Thank You 
> > Mike Goldman
> > Bioinformatics Coordinator
> > MFGN   USM
> >
> >
> >  
> >