Video-In problem with MSI Geforce3 Card

[Spacecomber]

Help! I've just installed a MSI 8822 video card, which has VI/VO daughter card included, but I can't get the VI working. I installed the video card's drivers, the video capture drivers, and the video capture software that came with this card, but I get a black screen in the little window that the video capture software provides for viewing the video. The video capture software lists the NVidia WDM Video Capture source, so it looks like it recognizes the drivers and that they are installed, but they don't seem to be doing anything when I try to hook up a video input.

Does anyone have any experience with this video card or perhaps other nVidia based VI/VO cards? Looks like I need all the help and suggestions that I can get.

By the way, the 3D graphics and even the TV out all work fine.

Thanks

Space

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Sounds like you don't have a cable hooked up right. I know my MSI GF2 card w/ VIVO has 2 S-Video connectors and 1 composite connector and a composite/S-video adapter. I assumed with the adapter one of the S-videos was output, and the other S-video and composite were input. So I plugged my VCR into the composite and got nothing but a black screen. Turns out the composite was also output, the adapter was for the one S-Video input. I thought that was kind of weird, but once I switched everything around it worked.

 

[Spacecomber]

Thanks for the reply, and I think that you are on the right track.

I was trying to hook up a VCR as my video source. It only has a composite or RCA type connector, so I was using a S-Video to Composite dongle off the video card's video-in (s-video) connector. I don't think that this little adaptor was working. (It came with my Voodoo3 card, which has a s-video connector for video out.)

Since I didn't have any device handy that had a s-video connection for video output, I took the cord with the s-video connectors on each end that came with the card and plugged one end into the card's video out and the other end into the video in. LOL, I scare myself when I get a bright idea like this. I hooked up the composite video out connector to my TV so I could watch what happened. (This card won't let you have both your monitor and your TV output working at the same time, at least I didn't figure out how to do that yet if it is possible.) Well, it worked. :Q When I fired up the Wincoder capture program I got a nice set of regressing images, kind of like when you hold two mirrors so you can see the image of one in the other.

So, it looks like my problem of trying to hook up the VCR to the video input will require getting an adaptor that can do a better job of converting a composite signal into a s-video input.

Thanks again for the reply. Any other thoughts or suggestions on this are welcome, since this video capture stuff is all new to me.

Space