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Tv turner card support windows 2000

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Which tv-turner card is good for windows 2000? I have an old ATI-TV turner card but ATI released a statement saying that they will no longer provide driver/software for the discountinue. I used the card to do video editing so I want a high resolution turner card to improve the quality.....

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Well i have a Hauppauge WinTV (nicam stereo with FM Radio) and it works perfectly in win2k, i dont have any problems with it.

 

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The resolution is pretty much fixed to roughly 640x480 of crappy NTSC, or 800x600 PAL (good :))

 

Any matrox would do quite well.

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don't you just hate it well you double post ;(

 

[This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 17 July 2000).]

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Hmmm, well, the wintv card i have (bought it 3 days ago) runs in 640x480 and cant find if there is a way to change it to higher resolutions, like 800x600...it runs fullscreen in 640x480..is there a way to change the resolution?

 

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You would need to use the WinTV WDM drivers. The info was posted yesterday (see the front page of the ntcompatible.com). Your mileage may vary, though, as many folks have experienced lockups with these drivers. If you try them, please post your results.

 

 

 

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92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO!

 

PIII 650@850

BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram

20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR

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Voodooo3 3000 AGP

... and a bunch of USB Stuff

Windows 2000 Pro Retail

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You need to enable hardware overlay. Then the video card will stretch the image to any size.

 

Last worked with my TNT, and Wintv model 406 in win98 with the 2.08 drivers!

 

I tried those WDM drivers listed, and it didn't even let me watch TV, let alone use overlay frown

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The WDM drivers are old. Hauupauge Germany has newer drivers...in English.

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This not is WDM drivers "ntdrv306.exe nor is drv306.exe" there just plain old legacy drivers for both NT4 & Windows2000.

So where are you seeing WDM drivers DosFreak ?.

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Couldn't find that overlay.exe, pretty sure I've seen it before though. Overlay works fine with PowerDVD, and works with Borgtv, but locks up after you click to shrink the screen down from full screen, (but at least the picture keeps going :)).

 

On the german hauppuage site I found this for the win98 driver:

 

WinTV Treiber Version 4.18 (wtvdr418.exe, 2179 KB, 14. Feb 2000)

 

blah, blah, blah...

 

Bugfixes:

 

Fehlerhafte Darstellung im Overlay Modus bei Riva TNT, Voodoo Banshee und Matrox G200 wurde behoben.

 

Whereas, the .com site says:

 

Name=WTVDR418.EXE

size=2179K

Updated Jan. 27, 2000

 

 

Seems to have different dates!

 

For the win2000 drivers:

 

German:

 

WinTV NT4.0/2000 Treiber Version 3.06

(ntdrv306.exe, 2611 KB, 30. Juni. 2000)

 

Bugfixes:

 

Behebt Abstürze (System friert ein) bei bestimmten Computern mit ALI oder VIA Chipsatz.

 

 

.com site:

 

Name: W2KDRV306.EXE

Version 3.06

size=2,611

Updated June 12, 2000

 

no notes on bugfixes.

 

Must say my TNT didn't get fixed by the win98 update 4.18. But it does work with the 2.08 version of the drivers.

 

On the german site in the FAQ:

 

Kein Overlay bei nVidia TNT Grafikkarten

Starten Sie den Registrierungseditor ( Start / Ausführen / REGEDIT ). Gehen Sie zu:

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\

Display\0001\NVIDIA\DirectDraw]

 

(wobei NVIDIA durch den Hersteller zu ersetzen ist)

Setzen Sie den Wert "OverlayMode" auf 1,2 oder 3:

"OverlayMode"=dword:00000002

 

Pity the location is not there in win2k

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Found a file in a folder called support in ftp.hauppauge.com its called hcw848nt.exe, I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, however it does have newer driver versions than the current official download it updates form 180?? to 18163.

 

Still doesn't fix anything mind you.

 

An additional note! I enabled Hardware overlay on my win98 partition, with the hauppauge program. Wintv32 crashed, and now win98 bsod's just as the logon box appears. I press enter to clear it, and the PC restarts. What gives? smile Its a standard, run-of-the-mill VMM VXD death. It boots into Safe mode OK, but I haven't really tinkered with it yet.

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