Record button

[D_Judge]

G'day All
I think I sent this message to the wrong forum and was told
the best place to to come here

I have a Matrox g400 - TV and all works OK
but I have no record button on the remote
Any Ideas

I have
Matrox Video Tools Version 02.04.15
Matrox PC-VCR Version 02.04.15
Windows 2000 Service pack 3
PIII 1.3 gig Intel
Aopen MB ax34-U
80 gig HD
640 megs memory

Also another little problem is anyone know how to get Pinnacle 7 to reconise the Matrox marvel g400-TV

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[Brian Ellis]

Marvel G-400 + W2k = no go.

Suggest you dual boot with W98SE as the easiest solution.

[Dr Mordrid]

PC-VCR in that set of tools is just for watching TV. Switch to using AVI_IO for captures.

I use PICVideo MJPeg as the capture/playback Compression, YUY2 704x480 as the Format and have the card set to use DVDMAX so it'll output PICVideo to the analog output of the Marvel. Works fine here.

Dr. Mordrid

[Fred H]

Marvel G-400 + W2k = no go.
Suggest you dual boot with W98SE as the easiest solution.

Don’t agree 100%. I am using W2K SP2 (not SP3!!!) with PD 5.39 (made just for W2k) in combination with VT 2.04 leaked. The record button is present but very unstable. Recording HW MJPEG – no good. Unstable, BSOD etc.
I am using AVI_IO and PICvideo as Doc suggested for analogue video capturing with no major problems. I don’t like dual boot, myself.
WinXP is definitely not for Marvel G400-TV. I am satisfied with W2K SP2.
I didn’t try DV.

Fred H

[Tempest]

I currently use Win2K SP3 with the Marvel G400-TV. Although hardware MJPEG is out of the question and the record button is absent, I am happy with the results with AVI_IO using HuffYUV or Morgan/PicVideo MJPEG compression. I'm using 5.84.023 drivers with version 2.10.010a Video Tools.

[Will Hay]

Patch for RR and Win2k/XP

I upgraded to XP and had exactly the same problem.
I never solved it but before going back to Win98se (other issues than video) used virtualdub and found it much better for capture than the natrox remote.
I understand there is a patch for the RR-G to XP - I think the same goes for Win2k.
You may wish to read the thread I participated in...
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http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36686

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HTH.
Good luck.
Will