New drivers for Marvel G400-TV

[Adis]

GOOD!

[bprothero]

I installed the latest drivers and tried the PC-VCR app. The M-JPEG hardware capture is still unstable in WinXP as it sometimes stops recording video after a few minutes or the video becomes corrupted. I've updated the G400 and MB bios, loaded the latest VIA drivers and updated WinXP to SP1.

My system is:
Shuttle AK39N mainboard / Athlon XP 1800+ / 512MB Kingstone DDR / WD 7200 ATA-100 160GB 8MB buffer special edition HD / IBM 7200 ATA-100 Deskstar 60GIG / Marvel G400-TV / SoundBlaster Live! MP3+ / HP CDRW 16X / MSI DVD-ROM

Does anyone know of a good PVR application that supports the G400-TV? I've tried AVI-IO (it's okay but not very stable and doesn't support the tuner), Virtual VCR (doesn't recognize the G400 although it does display the video overlay... doesn't record video though), Virtual PVR / VirtualDub (again, not very stable and doesn't seem to save the recording settings very well). Are there any others I might try?

I've tried using the Huffyuv codec and it is nice; but it crashes my system sometimes (or maybe it is AVI-IO that is crashing it?) and sometimes it refuses to capture (invalid record settings using VDub Capture). I can capture to YUY2 with very few dropped frames, and have plenty of drive space to do so, but the A/V gets out of sync when I join clips in VDub. If I use PC-VCR, it also starts a new file every few minutes (huge files!) and drops several frames each time.

Too bad PC-VCR doesn't support NTFS large file sizes.

In the mean time, I am still dual-booting into Win98SE for capture.

[traveller]

I think the stability problems can be implied by VIA.

Anyway, as a codec and capture software try:
AVI_IO / PICVideoMJPEG

[Adis]

Yes, I agree about VIA...

And PICVideo is the fastest MJPEG codec
and the best when talking about quality.

[Dead2]

In need of drivers..

The site seems to be down (http://station.computercor.net/)
and I cant seem to find the drivers anywhere.

Does anybody have these files anymore?
If anyone still has them I could put them up on my server.

[lez]

The site seems to be down (http://station.computercor.net/)
and I cant seem to find the drivers anywhere.

Does anybody have these files anymore?
If anyone still has them I could put them up on my server.

check out mp3car.com, I wrote a bit on their about getting it working in xp, shame matrox never supported us loyal users.

(I just bought a g400 dual head today, cost $2 ! )

If anyone knows how to wire a marvel for composite out WITHOUT the breakout box, I'd like a clue............

[Dead2]

The site seems to be down (http://station.computercor.net/)
and I cant seem to find the drivers anywhere.

Does anybody have these files anymore?
If anyone still has them I could put them up on my server.

Btw, I found the new hideout for the Unofficial Marvel drivers:

http://matroxers.com

[NT4]

damn!

all those links given are dead now

anybody around who knows another link where I can download the new xp-drivers?

[Adis]

Download link:

http://www.speedyshare.com/448439525.html

Included:
-PowerDesk 5.92.006+
-VideoTools 3.05
-VT Cleaner 2

[NT4]

THANK YOU, Adis!!!



one more question, a little OT:
I am currently running the card under windows nt4. I have heard that there is a patch to get rid of the macrovision "protection". is this correct? have you any information on that?

[bprothero]

I used to use a hex editor and switch the bits that way so I was not tied to a specific version of the drivers due to use of hacked files. I haven't used the G400 for years, though I did like the card... just not the lack of support and Windows XP incompatibility, and would have to do some digging to remember what bits to change. But it is possible. You could probably do a seach on the internet for the information.

THANK YOU, Adis!!!



one more question, a little OT:
I am currently running the card under windows nt4. I have heard that there is a patch to get rid of the macrovision "protection". is this correct? have you any information on that?

[laitakwai]

Display and record problem after resuming from hibernation

Hi Adis,

I use Marvel G400-TV and my configurations are as follows:-

Motherboard - AsRock Alivedual-eSata2
CPU - AMD 64 X2 5200
Display - AGP - Marvel G400-TV
- PCI-E - Sapphire 2600XT DDR 4 256M
Ram - Cosair 2 Gb
Sound Card - Sound Blaster Live

I have the following problems:

1. When I use the 5.92 driver and enable DVD Max, I get the message "enabled but not currently active"
2. When I resume my PC from Hibernation, PCVCR does not properly display the TV channel. The picture is scaled down and only part of the picture is shown but confined to the upper left hand corner. The remaining screen turns black.

Please help me solve the problems.

BTW, can I use the default driver in XP, i.e. WDM driver, to capture video? If so, how? Or can I use the same driver (5.92 + MVT3.5) in Vista?

Many thanks

LAI

[Adis]

XP Drivers

New link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/101671730/Adis_Matrox_XP_Drivers.zip.html

Included:
-PowerDesk 5.92.006+
-VideoTools 3.05
-VT Cleaner 2

[Debbie]

Adis has been very good in patching these drivers to work on WinXP but do'nt expect perfection.

I think to use them on Vista is expecting a bit too much. Remember that originaly these
drivers have been designed for Win98 and Matrox have never updated the capture drivers to work on WinXP.