Video capture - Dazzle DVC 120

Hi. I'm a new Mac Mini owner after years of using Windows and Linux. I sold my Win XP laptop and jumped in head first. Like many before me, I'm both impressed with what I'm finding and also having a hard time with some aspects of converting.
One problem right now is my teenage son reading me the riot act because he doesn't have my laptop anymore to capture video using his Dazzle DVC 120. I got the Mac Mini thinking it would be small enough to put in the other room once in awhile when he wanted to do this.
The Mac is tied into the TV and works fine using the Apple SVideo adapter, but so far we cannot figure out how to get OS X to recognize the Dazzle. Can this device work under OS X and what simple (read free/cheap) app can he use to capture? I thought maybe the iMovie HD might do this?
Is my first problem just finding a driver?
Thanks!

Mark--
It's probably a question best answered by the manufacturer itself (Pinnacle Systems), but it looks like it's Windows-only. What possible reasons they might have for keeping it that way, who knows. Most peripherals nowadays (printers, cameras, disk drives, etc.) are platform-indifferent; a few still are not. However, there are other video recorders/converters that are Mac-compatible. One very good one is EyeTV by El Gato:
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvmain&PHPSESSID=61fea74ad841cb b0a7fbf15469c2847a
Another is the ADVC110 by Canopus:
http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC110/pm_advc110.asp
I'm sure having to buy a new video converter wasn't part of your plan, but it may have to come to that.
--Kevin

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     if (captureDS != null) {
// create the processor
try {
PushBufferDataSource dds = (PushBufferDataSource) previewDS;
PushBufferStream [] videoStreams = dds.getStreams();
previewStream = new ClientMonitorStream(videoStreams[0], videoPreview, videoinfo);
processor = Manager.createProcessor(captureDS);
processorSH = new StateHelper(processor);
if (processorSH.configure()) {
// Set the preferred content type for the Processor's output
processor.setContentDescriptor(new ContentDescriptor(ContentDescriptor.RAW));
boolean retval = false;
TrackControl track[] = processor.getTrackControls();
     VideoFormat outvf = new VideoFormat(VideoFormat.JPEG_RTP);
for (int i=0; i < track.length; i++) {
if (!retval && track[i] instanceof FormatControl) {
try {
track.setFormat(outvf);
retval = true;
} catch (Exception e) {
track[i].setEnabled(false);
System.out.println("Info: exception setting track: " + e);
} else {
track[i].setEnabled(false);
if (retval) {
if (processorSH.realize()) {
processor.start();
setJPEGQuality(processor, 0.5f);
previewStream.setEnabled(true);
} else {
System.out.println("Info: retval false");
     } catch (Exception e) {
myLog.log("Error: creating realized processor: " +e);
          // Make sure the capture devices are released
if (processor != null) {
processor.close();
processor = null;
processorSH = null;
          return false;
myLog.log("Info: Sending rtp url: " + SendUrl);
return true;
protected void startVideoCapture() {
// If processor hasn't been created then try to create it
if (processor == null) {
prepareVideoCapture();
// ensure we have a processor, otherwise nothing will work
if (processor != null) {
if (datasink != null) {
try {
myLog.log("Info: Datasink still open, so closing.");
datasink.stop();
datasink.close();
     } catch (Exception e) {
try {
     DataSource outputDS = processor.getDataOutput();
MediaLocator mlsend = new MediaLocator(SendUrl);
DataSink datasink = Manager.createDataSink(outputDS, mlsend);
datasink.open();
datasink.start();
     processor.start();
sendingVideo = true;
if (videoButton != null) {
videoButton.setLabel("Stop Broadcast");
videoButton.setActionCommand("Stop Broadcast");
     } catch (Exception e) {
     myLog.log("Error: Failed to create DataSink for broadcast: " +e);
datasink = null;
     myLog.log("Started broadcasting...");
} else {
myLog.log("Error: Attempting to start capture, but have no processor.");
protected void stopVideoCapture() {
     // Stop the capture and the file writer (DataSink)
if (processor != null) {
     if (datasink != null) {
try {
datasink.stop();
     } catch (Exception e) {
myLog.log("Warn: Exception whilst stopping datasink: " + e);
datasink.close();
     processor.stop();
     processor.close();
     processor = null;
     processorSH = null;
     // Restart monitoring
     prepareVideoCapture();
sendingVideo = false;
if (videoButton != null) {
videoButton.setLabel("Start Broadcast");
videoButton.setActionCommand("Start Broadcast");
     myLog.log("Stoping Capture.");
protected void changeVideoSize(Dimension size) {
if (!videoSize.equals(size)) {
videoSize = size;
videoRestart = true;
videoinfo = new VideoInfo(SendUrl, imageFlipped, videoSize);
public DataSource getCaptureDS(VideoFormat vf) {
     DataSource VideoDS = null;
     // Create a capture DataSource for the video
     // If there is no video capture device, then exit with null
     if (vf != null) {
     VideoDS = createDataSource(vf);
     // Create the monitoring datasource wrapper
//     if (VideoDS != null) {
// VideoDS = new MonitorCDS(VideoDS, videoPreview);
     return VideoDS;
public DataSource createDataSource(Format format) {
     DataSource ds;
     Vector devices;
     CaptureDeviceInfo cdi;
     MediaLocator ml;
     // Find devices for format
     devices = CaptureDeviceManager.getDeviceList(format);
     if (devices.size() < 1) {
     myLog.log("Error: No Devices for " + format);
     return null;
     // Pick the first device
     cdi = (CaptureDeviceInfo) devices.elementAt(0);
     ml = cdi.getLocator();
     try {
     ds = Manager.createDataSource(ml);
     ds.connect();
     if (ds instanceof CaptureDevice) {
          setCaptureFormat((CaptureDevice) ds, format);
     } catch (Exception e) {
     myLog.log("Error: createDataSource: Exception: " +e);
     return null;
     return ds;
public void setCaptureFormat(CaptureDevice cdev, Format format) {
     FormatControl [] fcs = cdev.getFormatControls();
     if (fcs.length < 1) {
          myLog.log("Warning: No formatControls");
     return;
     for (int i = 0; i < fcs.length; i++) {
          myLog.log("Info: Available format: " + fcs[i].getFormat());
     FormatControl fc = fcs[0];
     Format [] formats = fc.getSupportedFormats();
     for (int i = 0; i < formats.length; i++) {
     if (formats[i].matches(format)) {
          format = formats[i].intersects(format);
          myLog.log("Info: Setting format " + format);
          fc.setFormat(format);
          break;
* Setting the encoding quality to the specified value on the JPEG encoder.
* 0.5 is a good default.
void setJPEGQuality(Player p, float val) {
     Control cs[] = p.getControls();
     QualityControl qc = null;
     VideoFormat jpegFmt = new VideoFormat(VideoFormat.JPEG);
     // Loop through the controls to find the Quality control for
     // the JPEG encoder.
     for (int i = 0; i < cs.length; i++) {
     if (cs[i] instanceof QualityControl &&
          cs[i] instanceof Owned) {
          Object owner = ((Owned)cs[i]).getOwner();
          // Check to see if the owner is a Codec.
          // Then check for the output format.
          if (owner instanceof Codec) {
          Format fmts[] = ((Codec)owner).getSupportedOutputFormats(null);
          for (int j = 0; j < fmts.length; j++) {
               if (fmts[j].matches(jpegFmt)) {
               qc = (QualityControl)cs[i];
               qc.setQuality(val);
               System.err.println("- Setting quality to " +
                         val + " on " + qc);
               break;
          if (qc != null)
          break;
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package RmiChat;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.protocol.*;
import javax.media.control.*;
import javax.media.format.*;
import javax.media.util.BufferToImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class ClientMonitorStream
implements PushBufferStream, MonitorControl, BufferTransferHandler {
PushBufferStream actual = null;
boolean dataAvailable = false;
boolean terminate = false;
boolean videoPlaying = false;
Object bufferLock = new Object();
Buffer cbuffer = new Buffer();
BufferTransferHandler transferHandler = null;
Canvas videoCanvas = null;
BufferToImage bti = null;
VideoInfo videoinfo = null;
ClientMonitorStream(PushBufferStream actual, Canvas canvas, VideoInfo videoinfo) {
System.out.println("Info: inside monitor stream");
     this.actual = actual;
     actual.setTransferHandler(this);
     this.videoCanvas = canvas;
this.videoinfo = videoinfo;
if (this.videoinfo != null) {
this.videoCanvas.setSize(videoinfo.BroadcastSize);
System.out.println("Info: created new MonitorStream object");
public javax.media.Format getFormat() {
System.out.println("Info: inside getFormat");
     return actual.getFormat();
public void read(Buffer buffer) throws IOException {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: inside");
     if (!dataAvailable) {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: no data available");
     synchronized (bufferLock) {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: no data available, after sync");
          while (!dataAvailable && !terminate) {
          try {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: no data available: before wait");
               bufferLock.wait(1000);
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: no data available: after wait");
          } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
System.out.println("transferdata: read: exception");
     if (dataAvailable) {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: data available");
     synchronized (bufferLock) {
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: after sync");
          buffer.copy(cbuffer, true);
System.out.println("monitor stream: read: after copy");
          dataAvailable = false;
     return;
public void transferData(PushBufferStream pbs) {
     // Get the data from the original source stream
System.out.println("transferdata: inside transfer data");
     synchronized (bufferLock) {
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: after sync");
     try {
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: before pbs read");
          pbs.read(cbuffer);
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: after pbs read");
     } catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: exception");
          return;
     dataAvailable = true;
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: before notifyAll");
     bufferLock.notifyAll();
System.out.println("transferdata: transfer data: after notifyAll");
     // Display data if monitor is active
     if (isEnabled()) {
System.out.println("transferdata: is enabled");
     if (bti == null) {
System.out.println("transferdata: bti == null");
          VideoFormat vf = (VideoFormat) cbuffer.getFormat();
          bti = new BufferToImage(vf);
     if (bti != null && videoCanvas != null) {
System.out.println("transferdata: bti != null");
          Image im = bti.createImage(cbuffer);
          Graphics g = videoCanvas.getGraphics();
          if (g != null) {
System.out.println("transferdata: g != null");
if (videoinfo.ImageFlipped) {
System.out.println("transferdata: before draw image");
          g.drawImage(im, 0, im.getHeight(videoCanvas), im.getWidth(videoCanvas), 0, 0, 0, im.getWidth(videoCanvas), im.getHeight(videoCanvas), videoCanvas);
System.out.println("transferdata: after draw image");
} else {
          g.drawImage(im, 0, 0, videoCanvas);
     // Maybe synchronize this with setTransferHandler() ?
//     if (transferHandler != null && videoPlaying)
     if (transferHandler != null)
     transferHandler.transferData(this);
public void setTransferHandler(BufferTransferHandler transferHandler) {
System.out.println("setTransferHandler: inside");
     this.transferHandler = transferHandler;
public boolean setEnabled(boolean value) {
     videoPlaying = value;
System.out.println("setEnabled: setting enabled flag");
     return videoPlaying;
public boolean isEnabled() {
     return videoPlaying;
public Component getControlComponent() {
System.out.println("getcontrolcomponent: inside");
     return (Component) videoCanvas;
public float setPreviewFrameRate(float rate) {
     System.err.println("TODO");
     return rate;
public ContentDescriptor getContentDescriptor() {
System.out.println("getcontentdescriptor: inside");
     return actual.getContentDescriptor();
public long getContentLength() {
System.out.println("getcontentlength: inside");
     return actual.getContentLength();
public boolean endOfStream() {
System.out.println("endofstream: inside");
     return actual.endOfStream();
public Object [] getControls() {
System.out.println("getcontrols: inside");
     return new Object[0];
public Object getControl(String str) {
System.out.println("getcontrol: inside");
     return null;
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For those wanting to hack the code a bit, feel free, but if you get it to work, please send me a copy; [email protected]
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Elgato video capture versus digital 8 camcorder to import hi 8 movies

Hi!
I have hi 8 video tapes which i want to import into my MacBook.
I would like to work on them with iMovie 09, cut them, set titles etc. put music on and so on.
Earlier I plugged my hi 8 camcorder into my panasonic DMR E85H dvd recorder with built in hdd.
Then i importet them via handbrake into my MacBook.
Then i importet them into iMovie 08 an did some cutting and so on.
Then i recognized, that there where horizontal interferences in the movie.
On the dvds the video is ok!
It doesn´t matter if i play the videos in Quicktime or in iTunes or iMovie.
If i would use a Elgato Video Capture to import or a digital 8 camcorder to import the videos to my MacBook would i be able to get a better result?
Which one should i prefer - i have to buy each of them!
Would the size of the camcorder-imported videos be bigger then with the Elgato device?
Now i´m using iMovie 09.
Thanks a lot for helping me out!

Based on your comments about horizontal interferences, it may be that you are seeing interlace artifacts. The solution may be to deinterlace the clips.
You might try checking the settings in handbrake to deinterlace.
You might also take the clip you have produced in HB and deinterlacing using a free tool like MPEG Streamclip or JES Deinterlacer.
Your MPEG2 on DVD is already compressed from the original on tape. Then HandBrake decompresses and recompresses it to h.264. You generally want to cut out compression steps in your workflow whenever possible, because each generation of compression will introduce noise and loss.
You could also reimport from DVD using MPEG Streamclip (and the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component). You could deinterlace at this step if needed.
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Hi All,
I want to detect the video capture devices, without installing the JMF.
I had included the jmf (windows version) in lib path in netbeans ide. I am able to detect the audio capture device. But unable to detect the video capture devices. But if I install the JMF, I am able to detect the Video Capture devices in My system. Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Vinoth Kumar.

YES! Please take a look at SIP Communicator project. They have all what u want.
The main idea is copy all .dll files to System or System32 (Please check files which JMF will copy to ur computer and where).
U need to have jmf.jar and sound.jar too ( maybe more) in your computer.
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Edited by: tamngminh on Sep 16, 2008 9:50 AM

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Hi,
I am in need of the nVidia WDM video capture driver for my Geforce 2 Pro video card. Model #M-8831. I was able to download it from the MSI/TW website over a year ago just fine. My computer crashed from a game bug a couple of months ago and MSI/TW does not list the capture driver I need any longer. I did email the company asking for help with no response back yet (after 2 weeks). You people may be my last hope.
I do have the cd that came with the video card, but I've never been able to install the capture driver from it. There is a button to install it, but it never gets loaded. I've tried browsing the cd and also tried installing it using the windows wizards with zero results. My only successful install was from the MSI home website.
If you need more information, please let me know.
Thank you,
Bruce ?(

If you followed the second link it says this:
Windows XP/2000/Me/98SE - WDM Driver v1.22
Version: 1.22
File Size: 1.1 MB
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Downloads
» Primary Download Site «
» Mirror Site 1
» Mirror Site 2
» Mirror Site 3
Release Highlights:
First stand-alone WDM driver release for Personal Cinema and VIVO-enabled products.
Right there at the end it says Release Highlights and says specifically that it's what you want...
Read my man, read...
Cheers!! 8)

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If anybody has this calbe/breakout box I would be Extremely interested in purchasing it...
Thanks,
Marc
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Ok i just bought a MSI GeForce4 Ti4200-VTD8X, Wich got Tv_Out + Video_in
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