Fly Video Capture Card 3000 help

[soulja]

when the satellites S-Video is inserted i get picture but no sound.. the sound port is like headphones shaped and not like the yellow and white wires.. but when i got the coax cable wire that was in the satellite box into the tv turner, i get no picture, and it goes from 0-125 chans, and on the tv the shows appear in AV2 mode, buti can't seem to set that on the card, and when the picture was on Svideo and i recorded a quick 10 show, the picture was really messed up, and aswell as the streaming going slow as it recorded.. what do i do

[phenious]

Ummm well the sound port you described sounds like an optical one. I dont know of any capture cards that can handle an optical sound if that is the case. What kind of capture quality are you aiming for? It seems best to capture with little or no compression and then compress the data later.

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[soulja]

well the sound isn't optical, its regular A/V wires.

[phenious]

Hmmm... are you using the regular output ports to goto your capture card or using auxilary ports? I had to enable my extra ones on my setup. If your setup is a rats nest like mine be sure to double check all your cords are going to the right place

-: phenious :-

[soulja]

well i have no idea what kinda of audio cable i need, so i just have the svideo going in, but when recording, the picture is bad and when i put the satelite cable in, the pictures bad since it needs the box to turn the channels, so i have no idea whats going on

[phenious]

Is it only when recording that the picture goes bad? Maybe there is something stoping you from recording? Cant say much on that area as Ive never messed with satilite.

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[soulja]

its like when i see the tv on svideo i see horizontal lines, like SCANLINES.. and when recorded it comes out like its very low color, like 8bit or something,, whats going on, and i have it on DVD or AVI

[soulja]

thats the snapshot & video usually looks like

[Xtreeme]

"and i have it on DVD or AVI"

Uh yeah thats video overlay issues. Hmmm. You have proper mobo drivers installed, current up to date DX and up to date video card drivers? THats not a capture card issue. Its a video playback issue!



"when the satellites S-Video is inserted i get picture but no sound.. the sound port is like headphones shaped and not like the yellow and white wires.."
K. S-video is made from seperated video. It has no audio to it. Just video so the signal gets more power (bandwidth) and you get better picture. You hook up the white and red rca's off back off satt. box for audio(I have sat. tuner and capture card too). Now you need a converter cable. Can buy one at radio shack but my cards came with it. It takes RCA's into a headphone style jack. Called "mini din". Now you will have a cable with RCA's on one end. The headphone mini hack on other (get stereo cable by the way). Plug rca's to sat box audio out. Plug mini headphone jack into you sound cards LINE_IN jack. Thats it. S-video with stereo sound EVEN on a mono capture card. Psst =dont tell ati that it would hurt there stereo capture card sales. hehe.

Im a capture/conversion nut as you can tell So anything you need to know fire away!


"when i got the coax cable wire that was in the satellite box into the tv turner, i get no picture, and it goes from 0-125 chans"

Yes this will be that case with it set to rca/s-video under tuner properties. You must go into tuner setup. Then go to input tab or setup. Now for input type switch from s-video/rca to Anntenna/cable mode. Also for antenna /cable to tune into sat. you must set ch. to either 3 or 4! also I have to somtimes RESET sat box by powering on and off again to get cable to tune in. You'll see pic on tv, not on pc. Then power the box off and on again it will come on. Somthing screwy with the two tv outputs on RCA direct tv box I have. NOW the RF (threaded jack, antenna,cable wire) will work. You should be all set now except that video overlay issue. Hope that wasnt too confusing.

[soulja]

it seems that u know alot about this and i thanx you for your reply, i will go and get that rca cable but umm for video issue i am aware that svideo sdoes just video, and i do have everything up2date, now for the drivers it says its up to date for the fly video 3000, with DX9 when it came with on the cd