Guide: How to enable Mjpeg Capture & Playback with VideoTools 2.04

[T-rex]

Here you can read how to enable Mjpeg Capture & Playback with Matrox Videotools 2.04 on Windows 2000 (I'm using italian version, but i think that the files are the same.. Tested on Matrox Marvel G400-TV Pal Version)

1. Install Powerdesk 5.39. Restart Windows

2. Install Videotools 2.04 (official, not the leaked one..). Restart Windows

3. Download this zip file. It contains rricm.dll and rrvcap32.dll. Extract it in \system32 folder (e.g. C:\WinNT\system32)

4. Download this zip file. It's rrMjpeg.ax. Extract it in Videotools folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Matrox Video Tools )

5. Download and run this .reg file. It adds the following lines in system registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"VIDC.dmb1"="rricm.dll"

6. Start Menù -> Run -> regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\rrMjpeg.ax" (or whatever is the path of this file, you have to write also " " )

Knownk bugs:
a) Mjpeg Output only if Dualhead DVDMax Enabled.
b) If you decode by software a video captured in Mjpeg (Reading it with Virtualdub, or encoding it in Mpeg, or any other compression) "weird lines" can appear on the top of the screen ( but you can crop these lines easily when encoding... )

as usual sorry for my English



by T-Rex / Raptor www.videoin.f2s.com

[hreintke]

LS,

I installed it as descibed and it works, but..
All the text in the matrox screens are now in Italian. As I know the screens it is workable but not the preferred way.
I installed the rricm.dll from another post but that did not solve the problem. Does anyone have a link to the english versions of the files ?

Kind regards

Herman

[T-rex]

English version:

• rricm.dll & rrvcap32.dll here
• rrmjpeg.ax here

[Angel2167882]

Macrovision patched???

Are the english files are macrovision patched T-Rex???

If not, where I can find it?

Thanks...

[T-rex]

No. They aren't Macrovision free..

As far as I know actually there isn't a patch for this set of Videotools

[frogster]

I'm getting a "can't load library" on the last step there. what does that mean?

[T-rex]

Make sure to write the correct path:

If you don't changed anything it should be C:\Program Files\Matrox Video Tools an so you have to write

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Matrox Video Tools\rrmjpeg.ax"

[frogster]

that was the first thing i checked

i uninstalled every matrox driver, reinstalled and i can't get the driver to initialize, even without the modifications.

[tonysee]

I can't get this to work

Okay this isn't working for me. I'm on Win2k, running Powerdesk 5.39. I installed the 2.04 Video tools from Matrox, copied in the two DLL's, copied in the .ax file, and registered it with the regsvr32. When I start Video Tools, I still don't have buttons to record an AVI or screenshot. Any idea what the deal is? I even uninstalled and retried...

[T-rex]

You have to use a third-party software like:

Virtualdub (freeware) www.virtualdub.org

Avi_IO: (shareware 25$): http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/

This patch doesn't modify PC-VCR Remote..

[Job]

I thought there was a patch for PCVCR in Win2KPro?

so that you could enable MJPEG recording whilst using the TV tuner...bit of a pain to have to launch virtual dub...but then again okay for planned stuff - just not spontaneous stuff where under 98SE I just Ctrl+A and it records a neat snip of the news or whatever for me to email my friends...

[sergiovalentino]

T-Rex

Una domanda:

Questi files sono gli originali modificati, o vengono da un'altra versione dei vTools?

grazie e ciao

[T-rex]

Sono file presi dalla 2.04.005 (ossia la versione "leaked"..)

Con la nuova patch di Flying Dutchman si puo' fare a meno del primo passaggio , ma è comunque necessario seguire tutto il resto della procedura per visualizzare i file catturati con la compressione Mjpeg Matrox..

[JoeDaring]

Hi everybody...

so, T-Rex, you confirm me that the second part of your MJPEG-enabling procedure is still necessary, even with the FD's enabler?

I did some testing and I'm almost sure it is, since without doing your tricks, it seems the played file doesn't use the hardware codec of my G200... but I would like to get some confirmation on this... FD told it should work straight away but...

Sergiovalentino, please, what can I use to get rid of MV on Official release, italian version?

thank you guys!

Joe daring

[Job]

Just followed your method - withenglish patches...

Ive just installed PCVCR under Win2KPro using the procedure here...

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27335

I dont have a record button available.
Thought I'd ask anyway. PS - I used the english versions of the patches1&2.

Also When I try to capture in VDub it crashes big time.

PS - the registry changes dont seem to affect my Win98Se dual boot when I go into it...are the registry's seperate in the two are they? I'm using VDUB previously installed in Win98 and simply started up in Win2KPro by double clicking on the icon in Progam files...