"NeonBlue" wrote in message
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Hi all, first of all thanks for reading this

Tech info: winxp, 512kmem, MSI nVidia GeforceFX 5900XT VTD128 graphics
card, tried many WDM drivers and all do the same thing it seems but
hopefully wish to use the 1.08 drivers if possible, the card does NOT have
any kind of TV Tuner it's only VIVO

1.08?? A little crusty isn't it? 2.20 should work with your card.

Anyway, here's my specs.
I have an MSI FX5900 Ultra
DirectX 9.0c
nVidia drivers ver 61.77
nVidia WDM vivo drivers ver 2.20
VirtualDub 1.5.4, which runs fine for me.

Well, I'm having two problems.....

1. However much I tweak the nvcap.inf file before installing the wdm
drivers, I still cannot get this card to automatically set itself to PAL
format on startup and it's driving me crazy having to change it from
NTSC_M to PAL_I on every reboot. Am I really missing something obvious
here?

I have to change it in the registry. Search for every instance of the word:
VideoStandard, and change its setting from NTSC to PAL.

2. I used to capture video perfectly okay (apart from the inconvenient
problem named above which I've never been able to solve yet) but now I've
reinstalled windowsxp I've started having major problems capturing video
with VirtualDub (which used to function fine before). The problem is that
any attempt to capture video in any video capture program (including
AMcap.exe) is resulting in errors!

VirtualDub, upon going to its "capture avi" menu option, gives error 418:
Unsupported video format (yes I checked it was in PAL mode first and
capture settings were 'UYVY' YUV 4:2:2 interleaved @ 25fps is this right
settings for PAL?)

Yes, with a capture size of 720x576, which probably doesn't matter. In
Capture Preferences (Press F10) the Default capture driver should be set to
"Microsoft WDM Image Capture "(Win32) (no change)", and Change Driver
Setting For is "Driver 0 - Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)".
I'm using no compression.

and after that when I try to capture anyway it says "Status 411: Hit Esc
to end capture...." then "Status 503: Warning: no frames were captured
make sure your video card is functioning properly and make sure a valid
video source is connected. Also try turning off overlay or reduce
resolution or reduce image depth" which is all well and good "except" I
captured video before on this so I know it can't be any of these things
and also I do get a picture coming through! it's just that it won't
capture any frames :-( makes me wonder if it's something messed up with
the drivers maybe?

AMCap.exe, upon attempting to capture, gives the rather unhelpful "Error
8007001f: Cannot start graph"

It's unusual for AMCap to throw up an error. Use version WDM driver version
2.20 if you're not already doing so.

Errr.. it's really late in the evening. Time to fdghytyv