Re: Is there a specific setting or driver for capturing composite video?

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From: Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media (graham_at_simplydv.co.uk)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:19:56 +0100

You need to look back to the last time you had it working and when it
stopped and try to work out if you have d/loaded anything or installed any
apps that may be interfering. Try system restore back to when it did work.
Graham 

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Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
"P. Jayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in> wrote in message
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> Over the last 6 to 7 years, I have upgraded through 98 to ME to XP,
through
> ATI AIW Rage 128 to AIW Radeon 8500 and have been able to capture videos
in
> AVI format with ME and XP, with the Rage card as well as the Radeon Card,
> with the pre-Catalyst as well as some of the Catalyst Driver versions. I
> have captured video both with ATI's MMCs in AVI format and  the Windows
> Media Encoder in wmv format. But suddenly, during the last few weeks,
> without any known reason, Composite VCR has failed and I am unable to get
> the VCR tape image on the Computer Monitor.
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> Hence this question:
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> Is there any specific driver within the Capture set which enables or
> disables composite video? Or is there any setting to enable Composite
Video
> which I have failed to notice? Or are any of the MMC or WME versions
having
> this problem? I am using MMC 7.7 with the corresponding Catalyst version
> recommended by ATI.
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> Could it be the connector between the PC and the VCR? It seems firm but is
> there any way to check this connection? Of course the TV channels are
> clearly received because of the independent cable connection to the PC.
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> P. Jayant
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