About Matrox ripping us off with the Marvel 400 and win2k drivers

[SebastianX]

Personally, I think every single person that has the opportunity should sue this lame excuse of a company and force them to give their money back to the customers it stole it from. This way of dealing with customers is simply outrageous, one year with beta drivers and tools for Win2000 and now they say they won't support hardware MJPEG? Then what the f*** did I buy this piece of s*** for? And hey, they even dare to say that the Marvell G400 was only intended for win98... and their own hardware codec in Win98 is the worst piece of crap I've ever seen!!! You can't do anything with it, and although it's suposedly accelerated by hardware, it's actually lots of times slower than software mjpeg codecs like PicVideo, and you can't edit with it!! Try to edit a small movie in Premiere or play with it in After Effects and then export the timeline to the Matrox codec. Disaster!!! And not only that, they make the YUY2 option invisible, so users that didn't find out yet about the YUY2 patch are stuck with their f**** buggy codec!!!
Jesus Christ, I'm soooo regretful of having bought a Matrox product, and I can swear I will never buy a Matrox product again!!! X-(X-(X-(X-(X-(X-(X-(X-(X-(


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Sebastian

[frogster]

I was looking forward to the win2k drivers in hope that I would actually be able to use the hardware encoder.

in win 98, forget about using it. if you use PCVCR, it can't lock the frame rate and doesn't do multifile captures properly (like AVI_IO).

I've experienced the same driver issues with ATI, Creative and other companies.

I think the bottom line is, in today's market, don't expect better drivers than those that exist when you buy your card.

[wkulecz]

Yup, I'm afraid its time for a consumer revolt. Buy it, if it don't work 100% as advertized out of the box, return it for a refund.

Holding on for promised fixes is a suckers game.

--wally.

[BrianP]

This development does not surprise me.

I bought a Marvel200 when it first came out with assurances from Matrox that it would have an OpenGL driver "soon." Months went by and all that ever came out was a beta driver that was slower than DirectX. Soon after they gave up and only worked on the G400 drivers.

Matrox has shown consistently that it does not support products over time. I'm glad that I moved on to Canopus hardware, because that company has been excellent at providing up-to-date software/drivers. As an example, they recently posted the certified DVRaptor driver for Premiere 6. This is significant because the Raptor is not even close to being their flagship product--they have other, more high-profile products like the Storm; yet they still are supporting the aged yet venerable Raptor.

Three cheers for Canopus, bronx cheers for Matrox.