replacing the marvel g400 hardware codec

[kropotkin]

Hi!
I was testing an older version of morgan's mjpeg soft codec, and i have read in the install file that you can replace the hardware codec for rr series, with their codec, for WinNt4. So, i thought, if hardware is not really available in many cases, and anyway you can't use the pc-vcr (which really pisses me off, because sometimes i want to record something quickly), MAYBE, you can do the same thing in win2k, so you can freely use the pc-vcr to record. Anyone tried this before?

[landrover]

Yes, a software MJPEG codec can read hardware MJPEG encoded files. But you can't replace the capture properties of PC-VCR from hardware to software MJPEG. You'll have to do your capturing with a third-party app like AVI_IO. B.t.w, this is just as simple as PC-VCR, only better.

landrover

[Brian Ellis]

PICvideo's codec is better than Morgan's, IMHO

[Fred H]

PICvideo is not only better, it is easy to uninstall if you wish.
Morgan MJPEG codec installs almost over the entire system and difficult to uninstall.

Fred H

[kropotkin]

Yes, in fact you were right about morgan. They install all over the place. In fact, they just did what i wanted to do: they replaced to hardware codec. I captured soething from the pc-vcr and i had the surprise to see that it is encoded with morgan mjpeg. Don't ask me how, it just happend. And i'm not a computer newbie... i'am a programmer ..