[AG-TECH] hauppauge video problems

[Bob Riddle]

yeah - I guess I knew that, but couldn't drag it out of the old, gray, 
brain cells.  There are/were some old VfW drivers, but at that point it 
occurred to me I had spent more on time than on Osprey cards.

Thanks for clearing up my confused babble!

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:
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>>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:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 
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>>>
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