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Thank you for your reply:

Switching to the dibdraw overlay doesn't affect the output.

The s-video in picture is black and white even on color material, and doesn't capture at the framerate specified in the capture application.

I am sending a picture of the output from the composite in to the email address you provided.

Please answer the following questions so we may assist in resolving this issue :

If you disable Direct draw do you see the same results ? You can disable directdraw by clicking on options>video format within Vidcap32 and clicking on configuration. The default setting with Direct Draw enabled is the default. Try selecting dib draw and see if the same issue still occurs.

Have you tried the s-video input ? Does the same issue occur ?

It would be helpful if you could send a screen shot or short clip to [email protected], so we can actually see the issue you have described.

Thanks,

Okay, this is going to be a long one:

I bought an Osprey 210 card about a year ago, and the first system I used it in was on a no-name motherboard with the ALi Alladin 4 chipset and a K6-3 400MHz CPU. It worked great in that system.

It spent some time in an Asus A7V133 with a fairly early BIOS. That system had a 1GHz AMD Athlon in it, and also had a SoundBlaster Live! card in it. Whenever I had the SBLive! in there, the overlay of the input from the 210 looked like a bunch of vertically oriented multi-colored bars. Removing the SBLive fixed the problem. Since the SBLive! has many well-known problems hogging the PCI bus and such, I figured it was just an incompatibility.

Well, now I have the card in my new workstation. It's a Soyo Dragon Plus! with the 2BA3 BIOS, running a Duron 1GHz Morgan core CPU, 256MB of DDR, and a GeForceMX200 video card from Abit.

The motherboard has integrated 6 channel audio from C-Media, onboard LAN from Realtek,  and Promise RAID. Right now, the card is in slot 5, but putting it in any slot results in the above problem. I've disable ALL the onboard devices, and returned the BIOS to the default safe state, and re-installed the driver and patch. I also did a fresh install of Win2k SP2. Nothing is fixing the problem. I'm out of the warranty period, so I'm looking for a suitable solution that I can implement to solve this problem.

The card worked great while it worked, but this is making me consider other companies for my future capture hardware needs that work with a greater variety of hardware. Thank you for your time.

EDIT: The card is properly set for NTSC-M for North America and is using the Composite-In

Jon Hickman