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Posted: December 03 2003 at 12:14pm | IP Logged Quote Meta_*

I am new to the forum and have been considering the Osprey 200 for use on my Dell Pentium Pro 750Mhz platform. Although a retired MTS, I am new to the field of video capture. After searching the list of available video capture products I realized that most if not all of them did not support Windows NT4.0, unless I was willing to spend the money for professional equipment.

My question is, does any member of this forum have information on using an Osprey board in a video capture application with Windows NT4.0 as the O.S. I emailed Viewcast technical support several days ago but have not yet received a reply.

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Posted: December 03 2003 at 12:15pm | IP Logged Quote OspreyMan

The Osprey capture cards work great with Windows NT.  Although driver development for Windows NT has been discontinued existing NT drivers are very high quality.  It has been stated by Microsoft's Windows Media group, RealNetworks, and others that the reason they have made the Osprey cards their most often recommended capture cards was the stability and quality of the NT drivers, as well as of those for following operating systems.

The latest NT drivers can be downloaded from our ftp site, ftp://ftp.viewcast.com/pub/OSP-200/winNT/latest/.

For a high-quality AVI capture application check out http://www.virtualdub.org.

Hope this helps!

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Posted: December 03 2003 at 12:18pm | IP Logged Quote Meta_*

Thank's for your reply Steve.

Two days ago I finally received a reply from Viewcast Technical Support as follows:

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Hi Angelo,

Unfortunately today we do recommend our products from Windows NT. We can
however, recommend Windows 2000 or Windows XP if that is an option for you.

Best regards,

Andrew

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On the other hand, a telephone call to Viewcast at 888-684-6822 connected me to a guy named Drew who said the Osprey 200 does work with NT4.0, but a first-hand reply such as yours is much more reliable.

I've been running NT4.0 for approximately 4 years now. Lately searching for HW/SW that support NT4.0 has become very tiring and difficult. Finding DVD recording software was one of my latest challenges. I finally settled on NERO 6 Ultra even though some of it's features will not work under NT.

So I'm sort of at a crossroad at this point wondering if I should continue with NT or move to XP, and stop trying to fight the MS tidal wave. I've purchased some books on XP and I'm not impressed by the amount of stuff the O.S. has placed between the user and the hardware.

Any comments re XP .vs. NT?

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Posted: December 03 2003 at 12:19pm | IP Logged Quote OspreyMan

Well, when it comes to XP vs NT I would recommend XP.  ViewCast/Osprey discontinued further development for NT some time ago, even though it is still supported and there may be occasional bug fixes.  Whereas XP support and development is ongoing.  Additionally, there are features built into the XP drivers that do not exist in the NT drivers. 

One more thing is that there are VfW drivers for XP (version 2.2.2 and prior), as well as DirectShow / WDM drivers (version 3.0.0 and later, AVStream Drivers) so you will have the broadest system and application compatibility on XP.

Let me know if I can be of any additional assistance!

-Steve
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Posted: December 03 2003 at 12:20pm | IP Logged Quote Meta_*

Once again, thanks Steve.

After a fairly lenthy study of XP and Windows 2000, I decided to go with 2000. I just don't like the way XP gets in the way of everything and I really don't care for the whole Activation thing. I started with computers way back and did a lot of embedded sytems development with the RCA COSMAC microprocessor and Intel single board computers so I like to maintain some access to the underlying system components and hardware. XP is going in the other direction. At some point MS may shove it down out throats simply by dropping support for everything else but for now I'm still a holdout.

If you have any comments on 2000 I'd be glad to hear them.

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