[AG-TECH] IDS Falcon Quattro Express on WinXP

adam.horwich at stfc.ac.uk adam.horwich at stfc.ac.uk
Wed Mar 17 03:57:46 CDT 2010


Hi Fred,

I've recently been working with a Falcon Quattro Express to see if we
could use it as a suitable capture card for our new Access Grid node and
ultimately came away disappointed. Yes, their driver model is a bit
confusing, you only need their WDM driver pack if you want to use those,
and installing the toolkit puts in another set of drivers (VfW or TWAIN)
which take precedence and can confuse Windows. Specifying the VfW driver
gives a new set of headaches as I could only achieve interlaced video
through VIC, and the way the devices are presented to the AGTk differs
to the way VIC interprets them. I didn't have any issues getting the WDM
drivers to work though, (perhaps because we are sending PAL feeds?), the
only issue I had was display artefacting on the 4th BNC input. I was
informed before purchase that the PCI->PCIe bridge chip would act as a
bandwidth limitation and 4 PAL RGB32 feeds would exceed this; that
shouldn't be a problem for NTSC cameras though.

Regards,

Adam Horwich.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Fred Dech
Sent: 22 February 2010 19:39
To: AG-Tech
Subject: [AG-TECH] IDS Falcon Quattro Express on WinXP

hello,

has anyone had success with this card in AG on a WinXP platform?

i'm attempting to get it working in WinXP AG with the WDM drivers.
presently, AG sees the resource, "FALCON WDM Capture" and sees 4
ports, "Composite, Composite2, Composite3, Composite4."  this all looks
very promising but so far i've only been able to get 1 channel, cropped
and monochrome through VIC.  IDS toolkit doesn't support the WDM drivers
they offer.

tia for any info/advice.

--fred

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