GeForce 4 Ti4600 S-video in...

[tbonesin2000]

I an totally baffled. I am trying to get my video card to accept a signal from my DirectTV box and I can't even find the program to make this work. HELP ME!!!!!

 

[Finnkc]

ah? I have an Asus GF4 4600 TI and I never remember it having a video in S vid? It has S vid out and DVI out but I don't recall an vid in.

are you sure its S vid out and not in?

 

[rainypickles]

Originally posted by: Finnkc
ah? I have an Asus GF4 4600 TI and I never remember it having a video in S vid? It has S vid out and DVI out but I don't recall an vid in.

are you sure its S vid out and not in?

i think some 4600s had a dongle for video in/out

 

[Ionizer86]

I think the S-Video port is almost always out--unless your card has VIVO.

 

[oldfart]

Some had S-video out, some were VIVO. It depends on what brand you bought.

 

[Viper GTS]

Any VIVO functionality is card specific, you'll need to install the drivers for your card.

If you're running Detonator drivers they support video out, but not video in.

Viper GTS

 

[oldfart]

If you have the VIVO chip, you need the nVidia WDM driver. If you have the video out only type, it wont help.

 

[tbonesin2000]

It's a VisionTek card and the port on the back isn't actually S-video, it came with a little splitter thng that has one s-video in and one s-video out. I installed all of the stuff that come on the drivers disk, but i don't know how to view the stuff that's supposedly comeing into my computer now.

 

[oldfart]

I had a VisionTek Ti4600. They did come with the VIVO chip. Did you install the WDM drivers I linked above?

 

[tbonesin2000]

I just installed the driver you linked to, now what?

 

[oldfart]

Now your capture software should see a capture device available. You should also see it in device manager.

 

[tbonesin2000]

Is that WDM thing that i just installed the capture program? If not, shoudl it have come with my card?

 

[oldfart]

No. Its a driver for the capture hardware. I dont remember what the VT card came with for capture SW. Some crummy Cyberlink thing or something.....

 

[Rankor]

Those are just the video capture drivers w/c are listed in the Device Manager/Sound,video and game controllers.

There should be some separate video capture sw that came with the card.

/Edit:

If it came from Cyberlink, then it's probably Cyberlink's PowerDirector.

You can check for an eval. copy here.

 

[tbonesin2000]

Are there any better programs that anyone knows about? All I really need is something so that I can watch TV, but I don't want a really crappy program. Also it would be nice if I didn't have to buy it to use it for more than 30 days.