Flying Dutchman?

[dean]

Can you tell me what this Flying Dutchman patch is and what it does?
Also, can you please email it to me?
Thank you.

Dean
dayeo@home.com

[Dr Mordrid]

It enables the YUY2 (uncompressed YUV video) capture option in the Matrox drivers. Once you have this enabled you can capture to alternative codecs like PICVideo MJPeg (higher quality than Matrox's), HuffYUV, DivX and others.

Unfortunately PC-VCR does not work with YUY2 or the alternative codecs. To capture with those you need to use another capture proggie like AVI_IO (best around) or VirtualDUB. You pick YUY2 as the format and the alternative codec as the compression.

Send me some mail so I can get your email addy and I'll mail it to you.

Methinks someone needs to get Flying Dutchmans permission to put his hack up on a website until TI's site is back up....

Dr. Mordrid

[Ant]

I'll post it if someone sends it to me and tells me it's OK to do so

[Dr Mordrid]

It's on the way Ant. Now all you need is FD's permission....

Dr. Mordrid

[Flying dutchman]

Sure, no problem! The program was intended as "public domain" anyway. Feel free to copy it.

Doc, one "legal" question. Undoubtedly you'll have heard about the 30-day registry "patch" for tMpegencoder 12c. Would it be "legal" to distribute a simple program or batch file that applies this patch and subsequently launches tMpegenc? Of course I don't endorse illegal copying, but I have a feeling that Hori-san is just as unhappy about the current situation as we are...

[Dr Mordrid]

I don't think such a file is legal to distribute in the States by way of a weblink. Lots of crack sites have been shut down because of the new laws passed on this a year ago.

I'm sure other entities like the EU have their own rules about such things that follow the same logic trains.

That said things can and do get passed around a lot, don't they? ;-)

Dr. Mordrid

[AlgoRhythm]

Hey Dutchman,

Could you perhaps make the code available for your program, or alternatively, explain in detail what it does? I'm interested in getting YUV captures enabled in WinNT...

AlgoRhythm

[Ant]

Here we go...

http://www.murc.ws/VidUtils.html

thanks to Doc and FD

[Dr Mordrid]

Ant:

You should put a note in there NOT to use the YUY2 patch with Video Tools ver. 1.54. It's YUY2 support is seriously broken.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 01 March 2001).]

[Ant]

OK got it Doc thanks. What I'll do is set up a Video Utils page so if there is anything else anybody wants on there let me know or email it over.

[Flying dutchman]

All the "patch" does, is to make an invisible button visible on one of the dialog boxes. This button is simply not present in the Windows 2000/NT version of the driver, simply because the driver does not contain any YUY2 code at all..... So it won't be of any help at all under Win2000 or NT. The program does so by replacing a certain byte sequence in vcap16.dll:

(&H40 &H80 &H26 "YUY2") by another one:
(&H50 &H80 &H26 "YUY2")

This byte sequence only occurs in the resource part of the DLL. The "&H40" is a bit-mapped field that tells whether the button is enabled, visible etc.

That's all the program does, no big deal. It was written in Delphi 5. I'll gladly post the source somewhere if you give me a link to upload it to?

[Ant]

Will do thanks Doc.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Dr Mordrid:
Ant:

You should put a note in there NOT to use the YUY2 patch with Video Tools ver. 1.54. It's YUY2 support is seriously broken.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 01 March 2001).]</font>

[AlgoRhythm]

Dutchman,

That is all the info. I need. But, unfortunately, it appears you're right. At least Win2K doesn't seem to have it, as far as I can tell.

AlgoRhythm