Hi Fred, I've recently been working with a Falcon Quattro Express to see if we could use it as a suitable capture card for our new Access Grid node and ultimately came away disappointed. Yes, their driver model is a bit confusing, you only need their WDM driver pack if you want to use those, and installing the toolkit puts in another set of drivers (VfW or TWAIN) which take precedence and can confuse Windows. Specifying the VfW driver gives a new set of headaches as I could only achieve interlaced video through VIC, and the way the devices are presented to the AGTk differs to the way VIC interprets them. I didn't have any issues getting the WDM drivers to work though, (perhaps because we are sending PAL feeds?), the only issue I had was display artefacting on the 4th BNC input. I was informed before purchase that the PCI->PCIe bridge chip would act as a bandwidth limitation and 4 PAL RGB32 feeds would exceed this; that shouldn't be a problem for NTSC cameras though.
Regards, Adam Horwich. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Dech Sent: 22 February 2010 19:39 To: AG-Tech Subject: [AG-TECH] IDS Falcon Quattro Express on WinXP hello, has anyone had success with this card in AG on a WinXP platform? i'm attempting to get it working in WinXP AG with the WDM drivers. presently, AG sees the resource, "FALCON WDM Capture" and sees 4 ports, "Composite, Composite2, Composite3, Composite4." this all looks very promising but so far i've only been able to get 1 channel, cropped and monochrome through VIC. IDS toolkit doesn't support the WDM drivers they offer. tia for any info/advice. --fred -- Scanned by iCritical.
