Dazzle DVC II and K7 chipsets

[DuRaNgO]

Hiya,
i just picked up a Dazzle Digital Video Creator II, when I stick the card in and try booting, the system just sits there looking at me/ and me at it :/

there website says certain K7 chipsets are incompatible with it, has anyone found a work-around or possibly a better capture solution?
TIA
jim

[Beezer]

I tried out a Dazzle DVC (don't remember if it was I or II) for a brief time about 1 1/2 years ago. I put it into a system very similar to your "System 2"... It worked, but not with their software -- had to use the Ulead software. Their tech support wasn't much help either, so I gave trying to use the Dazzle software.

The analog transfer quality was not acceptable to me, so I returned it and got a ADS Pyro DVI card instead (also half the price). That works fine, but you need the DVI interface on your camcorder -- does not have analog capture ports that Dazzle used.

[DuRaNgO]

My Sony 330 does have the firewire port on it so that might be a good way to go

I was hoping to have the ability to do vhs to vcd as well, maybe a second card for that is in order
jim

[Beezer]

You might get just as good (maybe better) quality copying your VHS to your Sony, then capture from your camcorder using the Firewire.

As I remember, there was quite a noticable quality drop when capturing with the Dazzle. This was an external unit and I think I used the S-video connection. On the other hand, the firewire DVI capture is a perfect (or darn near) copy from the camcorder to computer.

You might try to get some input from the folks in the Desktop Video forum.

[DuRaNgO]

I considered that as the quality of the original vhs tapes is not that great to start with, I've returned the Dazzle and I'll do some shopping for a good firewire card/software bundle
thanks beez,
jim