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ATI TV Wonder looks crappy?

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Oyeve

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I used to encode with an Asus 6800 deluxe than I used a Radeon 64ddr but hated spending the extra cash for a VIVO card so I recently got an ATI TV wonder. It works fine but when I notice that the video input looks blurry or kinda squiggly, BUT, when I play back the video I encoded whether its mpeg1 or mpeg2 it looks fine. Its just when its live does it look kinda crappy, almost pixely or so. Kinda hard to describe. When I used the video-in function from my other 2 cards the image was pretty clear. Is it that the ATI TV Wonder is a crappy card? It got decent reviews from many places. Or does it have to do with Windows Milenium? Will I get better results going to Windows 98SE? I may be planing to go win98 for many other reasons, mostly game issues with my P4. Any help would be greately appreciated.
 
I have the TV-Wonder, and while I would consider it a crappy card, it should give moderately good quality video input. Are you talking about the video image being bad when recording? Because that is natural. Remember, you're working with TV-signals here. An s-video or composite in source should be a lot better.
 
The recordings look fine, it the live stuff that looks crappy. If I record it, it looks fine on playback.
 
My TV Wonder dosen't work well under WinXP either. I'm also getting a grainy picture on lots of channels.

I'm trying PowerVCR II Deluxe (some one in the forums here turned me on to it) and it's TV tuner software gives far better results for me than ATI's MMC. Give it a try, they have a thirty day trial package you can download.

You can find it here.
 
OK. I tried MMC 7.5 and 7.6 but neither one lets me use the tuner or capture prog. Also, they both tend to crash a lot! I then tried dscaler and there is a noticable improvement in picture quality but when I use the svideo or composite in I keep getting the tvtuner sound and not the video input sound ( Iguess I will have to tweak the settings more). So, I guess if I want to view video in or tv I will have to use dscaler and for capturing I will use MMC 7.1.
 
Trash the MMC and get DScaler. You will not be sorry. It is free under the GPL, and the picture quality is incredible compared to ATI's software. It is also far more stable than the MMC. Im running XP and it works great. I have heard powerVCR II is good for recording, but I never tried it (too expensive although i think there is a demo out). DScaler for Watching, Virtuadub for recording. They are both excellent quality and totally free. Once you switch you will come to love yor TV Wonder.

-Qwertybk
 
I just installed a TV Wonder into a demo PC at the office, and MMC 7.1 works fine under XP, but the picture is grainy. I switched to PowerVCR II Deluxe and the image quality has vastly improved.
 
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