PAL-M capturing in GFMX460-VTP

Hi to all.
I've just bought a MX460-VTP video card and started having problems with it. The matter is that I don't know how to capture PAL-M video and I'm trying to solve this problem since I received it (about a month).
I've already read all the posts about MX460 in this forum and it seems that it have not a solution to the problem, that, I think, shall affect many brazilians like me.
Well... Even thus I'd like to put my questions here...
1) IS IT POSSIBLE capturing PAL-M video format with MX460-VTP?
2) HOW to do that?
My configurations are as follow:
Pentium III 933
HD Maxtor 30 GB
256 MB RAM
Win ME 4.90.3000
Motherboard Asus CUV4X-C
All the programs that came with the card are installed, excepting the 3D-glasses driver, that causes problems to "Display Configuration".
Thanks to all that could help us (the problem isn't only with me)

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Originally posted by enio
Valeu pela dica, Enio.
Mas que é uma puta sacanagem deixar só o PAL-M de fora, isso é. Tem suporte pra tudo quanto é PAL no WinProducer, vc viu?
Bem, obrigado. O jeito é se conformar e comprar um transcoder mesmo...
Thank you, Enio.
It seems that I will have to do what I don't want: buy a transcoder NTSC/PAL-M!

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