ATI Video editing & VIVO

[Reece]

Hi, this new X1950 Pro card comes with a VIVO (Video In Video Out) cable for capturing streaming video, I no nothing about this technology & little is said in the manual about it either!:-? Does anyone have any ideas as to a suitable program to use & how to use in conjunction with the PC's audio in?:D
Many Thanks.

[Letum]

can you give details on what hardware you want to use with it and what for?

[Reece]

What I wanted to do was to plug the VCR into the VIVO cable Video In & the audio to Auxillery in, then record, convert to DVD.:yep: I have many home video tapes that I would like to convert.:D
Thanks.

[SUBMAN1]

Don't use it. What I thought was hardware encoding and what should have been increased speed turned out to be software encoding and it is not using your ATi card to do it. It is purely CPU. You are better off with VirtualDUB and AVISynth.

I guess if you want ease of use, it may be useful to you, but quality will suffer vs. the above combination.

-S

[Reece]

Don't use it. Not sure what you mean, the Video In plug or AVIVO software?
I checked out the applications you mentioned, do I need some other 3rd party card? not sure of hardware needed, could you please elaborate.:yep:
It is very confusing as to whether I need the ccc as I am only using omega control panel, do I need to install the ATI AVIVO software?
Many thanks as always for your help Subman1.:up:

More details:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/VIVOconnection.jpg

[TarJak]

Check the disks that came with the card. It should have some vidcap software bundled. Mine (an nVidia card) came with and OEM version of Ulead Video Studio.

Ulead Video Studio has a capture feature that should work with the HW you have. Before you start, make sure you have a fair chunk of HDD realestate because the capture and rendering process can chew up a heap of space.

As long as you have compatible cabling and adapters the process should be;
Plug your VCR out into your PC video card
Star Ulead and select capture. Unfortunately the options for capture vary abit on your input types s-video. dvi etc. So you are on your own there.
There is a record button in Ulead that you press to start and a stop button to stop Find them simultaneously press play on your VCR and record on Ulead.
Sit back and wait for the video to be copied onto your HDD. Press stop on both once you have recorded what you want.
Ulead then asks if you want to convert it into another format say VOB for DVD recording or AVI. Pick the one you want then go make a coffee and do something else for a while cos your PC is going to sit there and process stuff for a while depending on how much footage you have recorded.
Ulead pretty much guides you through the process.This process should be prety universal but will depend on what software you are using to do the capture. Be patient cos it's not a quick process.

[Reece]

Yes it comes with PowerDirector, Power2Go & Media@Show, but I wasn't sure if these were suitable or just bundled software, also not sure if ccc is required, not sure if AVIVO software has to be installed in order to use VIVO cable, very poor information supplied.:-? And yes TarJak, I've been a bit slack of late playing with my new toy!:lol:

[Reece]

Poo, I need a new card, my old PCI TV capture card (Miro) was purchased in late 98, considering the prices nowadays I have just purchased this for AU$70:
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=1283&maincat_no=132
Should do the job!
Thanks all for your time.:yep:

[SUBMAN1]

Ahh - you bought an AIW. ANyway, some software that may prove to be useful for you - http://virtualvcr.sourceforge.net/ The reason I point you this direction is because this little app can capture using any codec you want. Of course, if your bopard supports MPEG-2 hardware encoding, you will want to use that exclusevly. I believe the later model AIW boards have a hardware based encoder on board, where the older were hardware assisted (Which basically means software encoding)

And yes, I mean the AVIVO software. It doesn't work well. I was highly disapointeded to find out it is software based compression - not using my hardware at all to speed up the task. This will only effect you if you want to recompress something in another format however - so don't bother using it.

I ended up with a dual card solution - An ATI Theatre 550 Pro for capture (This is an excellent capture card for standard def), and my x1900 XTX for outbound. I have this connected to a Tivo for video capture of my games, etc. For inbound, I use cable. Most recording from cable I do using Media Center 2005.

-S

[Reece]

Thanks Subman1, I'll check the link but wait till the card gets here to see exactly what it comes with etc.:yep: Yes the VIVO/AVIVO thing was starting to cheese me off, you'd think they would supply more details, anyway I figure that a separate card for the job would be a better way, I know I will have some probs ahead with my USB Internet cam, when I set it up the video-in on the old TV card refused to work! Always something, computers like women, can't live with em & can't live without em.:D
Cheers.