Which version of the drivers are you using? Are these Osprey-100 or 2xx? Have you been able to avoid the annoying 'two streams on the same card' issue that pops up the dialog that says you have to pay Viewcast $600 for the privilege?
-randy At 05:21 AM 4/2/2004, Lewis Grantham wrote: >Hi Stuart > >osprey cards have a few bits that can trip you up. Im under 2000, but >broadly similar: > >to select S-Video, run the vidcap32 (amcap?) program that gets installed >with the drivers. its a freebie thing in the program menu, usually under >"Osprey multimedia capture" > >you should be able to select each card in order from the options menu and >choose the video source settings (input = S-Video, PAL/NTSC etc). These >changes get kept as the default for that card, somewhere in the registry I >guess. > >Be careful with the video format options here - the colour formats are not >100% supported by VIC, so try and keep these to something like >"RGB24". if Vic fails to bind correctly to each card - best to use VidCap >to check the colour format settings. > >vid cap should offer a preview of each card too, to let you check the >correct and expected camera shot is there. > > >All these bits are under vidcap >> options. > >Also, newer (osprey?) drivers have an annoying habit of adding a virtual >device in multicard systems, something like "Default Capture Card". Its >just a pointer to one or other of the real devices, but confuses things a lot. > >Sadly I did not record how I got rid of it, but it was a registry hack, >taking out the references to the 'Default' device. once that one was >gone, I was able to access all four cards in our system correctly and >reliably. It was a while ago, but with the virtual device in the way am >pretty sure we had the same effect as you , i.e. being unable to select or >use number 4 properly. > >we also got a lot of vic errors as successive vic programs would end up >trying to share hardware devices - one following the 'default' pointer, >and one going direct. > >have a hunt through the registry for the exact 'friendly name' shown at >the bottom of the vidcap options menu (something like 'o100vc.dll Osprey >card 1')and you should find the correct registry entries to try and >export/delete. > >as always be very careful in there, and back up any original before >commiting changes. > >hope this helps some > >lewis > > > >-- >Lewis Grantham LLB MSc >Project Leader >Media Resources (Multimedia Unit) >Windeyer Building >Cleveland St >London >W1T 4JF > >Tel:0044(0)2076799258 >Fax:0044(0)2075800995 >
