[AG-TECH] Osprey Cards....... Desperation
Randy Groves
randy.groves at boeing.com
Fri Apr 2 15:06:41 CST 2004
Which version of the drivers are you using? Are these Osprey-100 or 2xx?
Have you been able to avoid the annoying 'two streams on the same card'
issue that pops up the dialog that says you have to pay Viewcast $600 for
the privilege?
-randy
At 05:21 AM 4/2/2004, Lewis Grantham wrote:
>Hi Stuart
>
>osprey cards have a few bits that can trip you up. Im under 2000, but
>broadly similar:
>
>to select S-Video, run the vidcap32 (amcap?) program that gets installed
>with the drivers. its a freebie thing in the program menu, usually under
>"Osprey multimedia capture"
>
>you should be able to select each card in order from the options menu and
>choose the video source settings (input = S-Video, PAL/NTSC etc). These
>changes get kept as the default for that card, somewhere in the registry I
>guess.
>
>Be careful with the video format options here - the colour formats are not
>100% supported by VIC, so try and keep these to something like
>"RGB24". if Vic fails to bind correctly to each card - best to use VidCap
>to check the colour format settings.
>
>vid cap should offer a preview of each card too, to let you check the
>correct and expected camera shot is there.
>
>
>All these bits are under vidcap >> options.
>
>Also, newer (osprey?) drivers have an annoying habit of adding a virtual
>device in multicard systems, something like "Default Capture Card". Its
>just a pointer to one or other of the real devices, but confuses things a lot.
>
>Sadly I did not record how I got rid of it, but it was a registry hack,
>taking out the references to the 'Default' device. once that one was
>gone, I was able to access all four cards in our system correctly and
>reliably. It was a while ago, but with the virtual device in the way am
>pretty sure we had the same effect as you , i.e. being unable to select or
>use number 4 properly.
>
>we also got a lot of vic errors as successive vic programs would end up
>trying to share hardware devices - one following the 'default' pointer,
>and one going direct.
>
>have a hunt through the registry for the exact 'friendly name' shown at
>the bottom of the vidcap options menu (something like 'o100vc.dll Osprey
>card 1')and you should find the correct registry entries to try and
>export/delete.
>
>as always be very careful in there, and back up any original before
>commiting changes.
>
>hope this helps some
>
>lewis
>
>
>
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