[AG-TECH] Video capture help?

[Mitch Kutzko]

Fedora essentially *is* RedHat, actually.  ;-)

It gets my vote, in any event.

Mitch

At 04:55 PM 10/7/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Ahh, well, if that's the case I'm going to have to get in bed with one of
> the new Linux for my multi machine main node, soooo, which is easiest?  I
> was told that Fedora was the most similar to Red Hat?  Any suggestions would
> be helpful.  Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 
> Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist
> North Dakota State University
> Fargo, ND  58105
>  
> Phone # (701)231-6247
> E-mail:  jim.senechal at ndsu.nodak.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Crummett [mailto:roncrummett at caynetco.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:34 PM
> To: Jim Senechal
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Video capture help?
> 
> Jim -
> 
> I seem to recall hearing something quite a while ago that Windows would only
> recognize one Hauppauge card.  I know that's not what you want to hear, but
> for some reason it works that way.  Has this changed?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Jim Senechal
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:14 PM
> To: 'Thomas Uram'
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Video capture help?
> 
> 
> That was a good call Thom.  I went and got some VFW drivers for he Hauppauge
> cards and installed them.  Of course it can't go totally smooth.  Now when I
> try and run node setup wizard I get the Microsoft wdm image capture and 1
> Hauppauge card.  Once again, any tricks?  Is there some reason XP would be
> blocking 3 of them?  Thanks for the help.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist
> North Dakota State University
> Fargo, ND  58105
> 
> Phone # (701)231-6247
> E-mail:  jim.senechal at ndsu.nodak.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Uram [mailto:turam at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: Jim Senechal
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Video capture help?
> 
> Jim:
> 
> 2.3 detects vfw drivers available on your machine, using the same code
> that vic does.  It should, therefore, show you the same list of devices
> that vic shows.  The wdm driver you see is a mapper for applications
> that only use vfw drivers; you can map one of your devices through it
> using "Configure on transmit" in vic, and then selecting the device you
> want to use.  Unfortunately, you can't use multiple devices this way
> (unless you 'configure on transmit' each device with every venue switch).
> 
> If you have vfw drivers installed, 2.3 will detect and use them fine.  I
> know there are vfw drivers for the Winnov Videum 4400 and the Osprey
> cards, and I've seen those work fine.  I haven't found vfw drivers for
> the Hauppauge cards (or the iTuner Spectra8, for the sake of saying so).
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Jim Senechal wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I am trying to set up my video capture machine to run off of Windows XP.
> >I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, I am just now running into the
> >problem and need a helping hand.  I have the standard old Hauppauge capture
> >cards in my computer (878 chipset), I downloaded the drivers, installed
> >them, and XP seems happy with the cards.  I install all the AG 2.3 software
> >and when I go to run the node setup wizard the only choice I get is Windows
> >wdm image capture?  None of the 4 Hauppauge cards show up on the video
> >capture machine?  Did I miss a step, am I doing something wrong?  Some
> >little trick I don't know about?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist
> >North Dakota State University
> >Fargo, ND  58105
> >
> >Phone # (701)231-6247
> >E-mail:  jim.senechal at ndsu.nodak.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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