[AG-TECH] hauppauge video problems

[Don Lewis]

Lately I've been getting complaints on the quality of our
inhouse video going out to AG land. We are still using the original
Haupauge WinTV model 404. Is there a better solution
for an existing VIC to improve color and s/n?
Is it the Spectra8 card?

Don Lewis

>===== Original Message From Bob Riddle <bdr at internet2.edu> =====
>I actually use a Spectra8 card on our "loaner" AG - it has four video
>ports on it and works the way Michael describes.  I've been trying to do
>the same thing with a 4-port Winnov card as well ... (you know, there
>are only so many PCI port in a one-box node!)
>
>Michael Miller wrote:
>
>> Just to add to what Ti said:
>>
>> My experience has been that, depending on the driver, you can select
>> the WDM device in the configuration of multiple VideoProducers.  When
>> vic starts up, one of the WDM cameras is automatically selected for
>> the first VideoProducer.  Then you are given a series of dialogs to
>> choose a camera for each remaining VideoProducer.  Again, whether you
>> get to choose another camera will depend on how the driver enumerates
>> the cameras.  The QuickCam Pro 4000 does show you multiple cameras,
>> but it gives them all the same name.  So, it can be confusing when
>> trying to choose a camera for the subsequent VideoProducers.  If you
>> have two different cameras, the WDM drivers will assign names as
>> appropriate and it's much easier to decide which camera to choose.  I
>> have an iBot firewire camera and a QuickCam Pro 4000 so I can see
>> which camera has become the default after the last session.  If you
>> have two of the same camera and the driver doesn't assign each a
>> unique name, that's when you run into trouble.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Michael Miller
>> NCSA
>>
>>
>> At 05:36 PM 2/10/2004, Ti Leggett wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>
>>
>> Thanx,
>>
>> Michael Miller
>> System Engineer
>> Visualization Technology Support
>> Computing and Data Management
>> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>> University of Illinois - UC
>> 217-649-0747
>>
>> "If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with
>> clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve
>> everything desired, and usually deliver everything you could have
>> hoped for and even more." -Paul Debevec
>>
>>
>
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Don Lewis
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