Considering upgrade to Marvel G450 eTV from Marvel G200.

[Peter Tower]

Hi!

Excuse my bad english

I'm considering upgrade to Marvel G450 eTV from my Marvel G200.

Logically, before I should to sell my Marvel G200.

Mainly, I use the Marvel G200 for:

1.- TV Output.
2.- Full PAL capture 704 x 576 (MJPEG, YUY2 ...) and Premiere editing to make SVCD and ocasionally output to tape.
3.- Gaming (ocasionally).
4.- Others (videoconference ...)

The main reason is because Matrox has announced NO new releases of VideoTools for Windows XP.

I don't know to do ...

It's that the best option?

What do you think?


Thanks.

Regards from Spain.


MB QDI Brilliant X1S 440BX - PIII 650. - 384 Mb. RAM
20 Gb. Seagate - Fujitsu 40 Gb.
W98SE
Video Tools 1.54.040
PowerDesk 5.15.022
DirectX 8.1
Monitor Sony 17" SF2

[Brian Ellis]

Pedro

My advice is keep with what you have and forget XP (If you have other apps which want XP, then dual-boot it). Your CPU is a tad slow for software codecs, so you may be very disappointed with the results.

Brian

[Peter Tower]

OK, Brian.

Many thanks.

Only a question:

Finally, I decide to install W2K but I can't install the official VideoTools 2.04 because the installation process ends abnormally.

I know that the installation file of VT 2.04 is created with Windows Installer and I think that this may have any problem.

Do you know any way of decompress VT 2.04 installation file?


Thanks again.

[Peter Tower]

Hi! again,

The exact message received from VT 2.04 installation is:

"InstallShield Wizard Complete

The wizard was interrupted before Matrox Video Tools could be installed.

Your system has not been modified. To install this program at a later time, please run the installation again."


Thanks.

[Brian Ellis]

Pedro

If you want decent capture with your system, use Win98SE. It'll work fine. Some users (myself not included) have Marvels g-200/400 working under W2k, but, I think, not using the inbuilt hardware codec system, which you should use, IMHO, with your CPU.

[Peter Tower]

Hi! ,

Finally, I've got to install the VT 2.04 in W2K.

- Applied the patch from matroxusers for MJPEG support.
- AVI_IO to capture (I can't capture with VCR Remote because the record button is not present).

... and ... it works!!!

0 dropped frames at full PAL resolution but when I play the AVI with MediaPlayer the video stutter. However, if I play the AVI file with VirtualDub the image is OK.

I want to test editing with Premiere or Ulead but my first impression is that Brian Ellis are reason and W98SE is more stable with the Marvels.

Probably I return to my old W98SE.


Regards.

[dZeus]

the reason it skips with playback is that you're using huffyuff/mjpeg? compression, and it's not meant as playback codec, but only for capturing purposes. Convert video material to MPEG1/2/4 for playback purpose.

[Peter Tower]

Hi dZeus,

Yes. I'm using MJPEG but ... VirtualDub plays perfectly the video without skips.

I think that could be a problem with the default MediaPlayer of W2K.

As you say with MPG1/2/4 the playback is fine.

By the way ... do you know if the video go to TV Output (record to VCR purpose) when I play it with MediaPlayer as W98SE?


Regards.

[dZeus]

it should if you're using DVD-MAX... though it has to use overlay to play back, and several factors can make a difference wether it does or not when playing back video, not even considering the difference between video player software