ATI TV Wonder question

[Oyeve]

Hi all. I am planning to buy the ATI Tv wonder and have a couple of question that ATI's website doenst answer nor the PDF file. Does this card work ok with a PNY Geforce 3 Ti200? I know it captures Mpeg-2 but does it capture standard mpeg so I can create VCDs? Thanks!

 

[winterlude]

It's a stand-alone peripheral, so any video card "should" work. I believe they also support Mpeg 1 since I had read about how much Mpeg 1 and Mpeg 2 minutes of video it could put on a 4 gig drive. There are, or were, 3 different versions of the card, which all have different features. Check the ATI site again and check out their FAQ page for the TV-out cards, if you can find it.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< It's a stand-alone peripheral, so any video card "should" work. >>

Card just needs to support overlay. Almost all cards now do. You can't record in MPEG-1 out of the box, but I want to say it's possible. Try VCDhelp.com. There is a program which lets you change all of the recording settings. The software that comes with it SUCKS. Get Dscaler and a 3rd party recording program.

 

[Keen314]

<< Hi all. I am planning to buy the ATI Tv wonder and have a couple of question that ATI's website doenst answer nor the PDF file. Does this card work ok with a PNY Geforce 3 Ti200? I know it captures Mpeg-2 but does it capture standard mpeg so I can create VCDs? Thanks! >>


Yes, it supports mpeg1. As to whether it will work with your card, I'd ask the people over at http://www.rage3d.com/ . If you're running WinXP (Win2k might also have this problem), I'd suggest you either buy something else, or wait for ATI to release decent drivers for XP (there are threads over at rage3d that detail the garbled image problem).

 

[ObiDon]

Mpeg-1. Definitely Mpeg-1...up to 15000kbps!

TV Wonder works well with my GF2 GTS. The XP garbling has a ghetto "fix" for it. When you start the softare, just click on something else before the new window appears so it's not the active window when it opens.
I'm using the MMC 7.5 software that came from the Radeon 8500 install CD and it seems to work pretty well. It still has the garbled image issue and when I use the setup wizard to create new capture profiles it's a little funky in that the highest Mpeg-1 resolution I can pick is 640x240. I don't know what the deal is with that but it's nothing a little registry editing won't fix 😉 I've successfully captured Mpeg-1 up to 704x480 @ 15000kbps after editing my profiles in the registry. Normally I just do 352x240 though and there is already a premade VCD template in the MMC software. For what it's worth...even if the display shows garbled on your monitor, it still captures perfectly fine! 😀