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OK, here is another update for anyone intersted in buying one of these cards. I have been using it for about 2 months now and have had one small problem (or so I thought). It would occur at the beginning of MPEG2 captures. I would drop a few frames at the very beginning. No big deal, since I can easily trim off the garbage frames and the rest was fine. I figured it was a config issue or CPU HP. Now for the big problem. I borrowed a DV cam from a friend since I am in the market. The DV port does not work with my MB for some reason. It installs fine, it just doesn't show any video or capture any in the application. It will control the camera just fine though. I tried reinstalling without ACPI and it made no difference whatso ever.
I did some researching and some whining at some other forums and it turns out that others are experiencing similar problems. I don't use timeshifting, but that was one of the main areas of problems people were experiencing. Disabling the DV port (SW1 on the card) fixed the problem. I disabled it and viola, no more drops at all. Any bitrate/resolution and it looks great.
Now here is the question, should I be happy that I can capture in MPEG2, DVD format (almost, video is right, 48kHz audio is being integrated into the next MMC) or should I be angry, that once again, I have a piece of HW that does not work as advertised? Like I said I do not have DV cam yet, but I am looking at one that is going to be available this week locally and would just like to have my HW work right. I know that firewire cards are cheap, but that is not the point. Aren't there laws about commerce concerning advertisement and fulfilling those promises? Are computer HW/SW companies exempt from these laws? It is just getting old, years of fighting with the same damn problems, over and over and over and over... I know that I am no the only one that feels this way. These forums would not be so busy if it weren't a hard fact of dealing with PC's.
I really like this card alot and am pretty sure that they will fix the problem eventually, but if they don't, what do I do? Be happy with what I got or whine a lot and get nothing but balder and waste my time?
WAHH!
I did some researching and some whining at some other forums and it turns out that others are experiencing similar problems. I don't use timeshifting, but that was one of the main areas of problems people were experiencing. Disabling the DV port (SW1 on the card) fixed the problem. I disabled it and viola, no more drops at all. Any bitrate/resolution and it looks great.
Now here is the question, should I be happy that I can capture in MPEG2, DVD format (almost, video is right, 48kHz audio is being integrated into the next MMC) or should I be angry, that once again, I have a piece of HW that does not work as advertised? Like I said I do not have DV cam yet, but I am looking at one that is going to be available this week locally and would just like to have my HW work right. I know that firewire cards are cheap, but that is not the point. Aren't there laws about commerce concerning advertisement and fulfilling those promises? Are computer HW/SW companies exempt from these laws? It is just getting old, years of fighting with the same damn problems, over and over and over and over... I know that I am no the only one that feels this way. These forums would not be so busy if it weren't a hard fact of dealing with PC's.
I really like this card alot and am pretty sure that they will fix the problem eventually, but if they don't, what do I do? Be happy with what I got or whine a lot and get nothing but balder and waste my time?
WAHH!
Lenl
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