Tv@nywhere: capture to avi

Can anyone capture to AVI using WinDVR. If you can then Could you please show me how?
Does anyone try to use different sw for capturing with this card? Does it produce better quality MPEG with the different sw?
What determine the quality of the image? hw or sw or both?
Thanks

Hopefully these pointers might help you, or at least make you cool down a bit. :D
Again what I say apply much more to CAPTURE (via composite or S-video) than TV tuning (via TV tuner) because I seldom try out tv tuning.
1) Desktop video tuning and capture is NEVER easy. I have gone through Iomega Buz (US), several older Coxenant BT chipsets cards (US, Taiwan), Ati Radeon 8500 AIW Vivo (Canada) in the past 5 years, and believe me, none of them are hassle free, with IOmega Buz being by far the worst. Even the older Coxenant chipsets which garner a lot of third party support over the years have many problems too. A search on Usenet newsgroup, Vcdhelp.com etc. will testify to this.
In fact, for me at least, these two latest capture/tv cards (PlayTV HD and Flyvideo 3000) are among the easiest to get to work - insert the card, Windows XP automatically detects the hardware, install the driver, load the WDM-aware capture/tuning programs (iuVCR/VirtualVCR), and lo and behold, I get the most beautiful picture I've ever seen on desktop PC, beating those Buz, BT chipsets cards and Ati card SIGNIFICANTLY.
And what did I pay for the cards? I paid about US $200 for Iomega Buz (5 years ago when it first came out)), US $220 for Ati AIW, US $60 - 100 for various Coxenant BT chipsets cards. Now I bought PlayTV HD for only US $46, and Flyvideo 3000 can be had for around US $40! I really really feel these newer cards are a great value for money!! That is why I don't mind buying 2 to compare, and they don't disappoint me (for my capture purpose).
2) It seems your greatest frustration now with TV@nyhwere capture is a-v async problem. But it is not only YOU, or TV@nywhere, or iuVCR! A-v asynv IS THE SINGLE MOST frequently encountered yet not readily solved problem in desktop video capture! Looking at so many posts in newsgroups and web forums on a-v asynchronization over the years, I am surprised that I have not twice encountered this problem (with capture length more than 1 hour) over past 5 years! I only got it once when I used a VIA chipset motherboard/AMD CPU. A-v async stems from the differences in oscillation frequency in video subsystem and audio card. So I have learned to stick to the following hardware combination for video works:
- Intel chipset mobo (most important factor IMO)
- Intel CPU (since using AMD CPU means using those crappy VIA chipsets)
- Creative sound card (I only have experience on Creative)
- Nvidia or ATi graphic cards
3) Now the software part. If I recall correctly reading somewhere, Windows XP has a better WDM implementaion than Windows 2000. And Win98 does not have native support for WDM capture. Now WDM is a far better implementaion than VfW (Video for Windows) capture, and most cards now use WDM driver support. I would suggest to go Windows XP and WDM.
VirtualDub is essentially a VfW capture program. It is one of the greatest freeware programs, but sorry to say It is very difficult to get it to work with WDM drivers even after doing those WDM wrapper/regedit tricks. I tried using it on PlayTV HD and Flyvideo 3000 without much success (first capture is okay then subsequent capture will hang).
It has a good implementaion to work-around a-v async problem (dropping video frames to keep a-v sync IINM), but from extensive reading I don't think it must be better than iuVCR/VirtualVCR: some people have async problem with iuVCR but not Vdub, some the other way round.
I would say for TV@nywhere it will be more fruitful to try solving your a-v async problem using iuVCR than solving capture program using VDub!
For iuVCR please check some of the settings that may affect a-v sync ( I don't have the program with me now, so I am just recalling):
- master stream: leave it UNchecked. If you check "audio" your video framerate may change from one captured footage to another footage; if you check 'video' you may get a-v async problem.
- audio interleave: select "FULL".
- short audio sample: try check or unchecking it to see if it makes a difference.
Just because VirtualVCR and VirtualDub both have "virtual" in their names does not make VirtualVCR a helper program to Vdub! LOL. VirtualVCR is primarily WDM based, and Vdub VfW. Try VirtualVCR and its various a-v sync options, your solution may (or may not) lie there.
5) What other options?
Another card? Unless you buy a capture card that capture both audio and video on the same card, no one can guarantee you to be free of a-v async problem. Flyvideo card is not such card.
DV capture via Firewire interface has NO a-v async problem too.

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Attachments:
Vision Acquisition_2cam.vi ‏200 KB
Grab and Save to AVI.vi ‏52 KB
Convert Avis.vi ‏18 KB

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When do you get the error? How many times the acquisition loop runs before you get the error?
Looking at it now, I think you're right that it's not a throughput issue, but has to do with the memory being used up. I have a couple recommendations:
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2) This seems like a good application for the Producer-Consumer architecture. This would require revamping your code in a major way, but I think using this architecture would improve performance. This architecture is best for programs that need to gather data in one loop and process it in another simultaneously.
Here are some examples of the Producer-Consumer architecture. I tried to find some specifically with Vision functions in them but I couldn't. Yet, you can still see how the architecture and data gathering/analysis works with these.
Here is a white paper to introduce the architecture:
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3023/en/
Here are some examples:
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-26558
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2431
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2145
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Applications Engineer
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Al Brassell wrote:
> Jeff and Craig,
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well I dnloaded the demo of iuVCR and it works for me as well, I can now capture mjpeg at my desired resolutions. I was reading on thier website and it has something to do with the capture drivers being WDM(Windows Driver Module) and vdub and premier have to use some sort of driver wrapper to convert it to a compatable VFW(Video For Windows) device.
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