anyone have a ATI TV Wonder VE card??

[Skarr]

it's a tv tuner/vid-capture card that goes in a pci slot, and they have em on sale at buy.com with free shipping for just 29.99 and was wondering if anyone has used this card....thx

[Jabe Adaks]

I have had one for years and they have not changed the card much since 2000 when I bought one. I stopped using it due to ATI's miserable driver support for it that kept it from working well in anything over Win 98.

I can only guess based on the fact they are still selling it there are probably better drivers out now. When it did work it was a really cool card, you could set cable stations as your Windows wallpaper and other cool stuff.

Jabe

[Seret Sajet]

Why not just use Fraps for vid capture instead of buying equipment. If you have a second hard drive to capture to you can get some great vid captures. I know a lot of people who stand behind it.

Go to www.fraps.com and try the demo version. It runs just like the full version but it marks you video with text.

[Skarr]

ok i've been playing around with fraps this afternoon and I've finally got it configured so it'll run (the keys it uses to start/stop movies coinsides with many game functions, and it was crashing games)

but I think I got it figured out, and got a divx compressor to make the clips managable (fraps 30 sec movie is 220mb, compressed is 8.xmb)

might have to go spend the $30 to get the registered copy...wish Serials2000 had some s/n's for it

[Seret Sajet]

I plan on registering a copy for sure.

Capping to that second drive gives me no lag. Thats the important part.

[Skarr]

well I tried doing BFV in the middle of some action and it crashed yet again, but now I hooked up a second drive and we'll see what happens

[Jotun]

I have a legal cop of FRAPS too...You definately want to record to a different physical drive.

[Seret Sajet]

True, don't try capping to the same drive or a partition. You will live in crash city if you do. Even if you have to hook up some 4 gig HD you have lying around its worth it.

[Jabe Adaks]

I have a legal cop of FRAPS too...You definately want to record to a different physical drive.

Probably be good if the second drive was on another IDE channel or controller too, because you can still choke your IDE bus with data even if it's to a different drive.

Jabe

[Jotun]

I have tested FRAPS on only a second physical drive, not messing with any controller stuff and I had no problems...

[Jabe Adaks]

I have tested FRAPS on only a second physical drive, not messing with any controller stuff and I had no problems...

Well I did say probably...

Jabe

[Skarr]

hmmm i just threw it on a 20gb drive I wasn't using, fresh format, put fraps and the movie download on a partition on it, and it still crashed...

[Jotun]

Weird...try capturing SWG...BFV may be your problem...

[Skarr]

also both drives are on 1 ide channel

I have tried both, when I tried BFV on a lvl with nobody, it worked fine, and in swg it worked fine, but i'm by myself in noc, near no action either

so I tried windows sound, that didn't work, now I'm gonna try it at 15 fps, instead of 25 where I had it

[Skarr]

grrr I tried 15fps with the sound turned off and it still crashes...