Is AIW RADEON region-specific?

[Guest]

Hi all,

This is my very post here and I hope to get a solution for this confusion. :lol: Is <b><font color=red>ATI AIW RADEON</font color=red></b> region-specific, and uses hardware based encoding. What I mean by that is <b><i>A AIW in US is designed to capture NTSC video alone</b></i>. (Let aside the tuner part, that is definitely for NTSC). I refer to the original AIW RADEON and not the 8500DV. Please read on.

My earlier set-up was: Soyo K7-VIA, Athlon 700, PNY PC133, Quantum 30GB, SB Live, WinMe, VIA 4-in 4.34, DirectX 8.0. With that, I could not get ATI AIW RADEON to capture PAL :frown: . <i>After two months</i> of struggle with ATI tech. support, ATI tech. support decides that this card is region specific and is not designed to capture PAL! :frown: . But, this information is not provided by ATI anywhere! But the capture software allows the user to select from several different input video formats . A global software for a region-specific card?? :frown:

I recently upgraded to EP-8KHA+, XP1600+, Kingston DDR 256MB, and wanted to test out the performance of AIW on this new mobo. I tried capturing a few samples of both NTSC and PAL video. And, it turned out that AIW can actually capture PAL .

I cannot understand why AIW did not work for PAL capture with my previous set-up? Is AIW RADEON really a region-specific card as the ATI tech. concluded?

Please provide all your opinions to settle this confusion. Thanks
DSJ<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by dsj on 12/19/01 10:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[labdog]

if you change your hardware except AIW Radeon & it's work with PAL, you're sure your AIW Radeon gc has PAL capability
even if it's a US card

so i think ATI's response is very suspect

i think rather you has had a software pb with your old config


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[Guest]

Thanks labdog..
A review of the card here, http://sysopt.earthweb.com/reviews/radeon-aiw/index3.html says "Frame capture happens at the hardware level, though actual video and audio compression is processed through enhanced software routines."

Whats puzzling is that, every thing else is the same.. same drivers, same peripherals..

DSJ

 

[labdog]

they said that the gc capture frames in first by hardware & after the process which compress in mpeg1 & mpeg2 is software

but i think there is an error because the Rage Theater compress also in Hardware
this allow a good acquisition directly in mpeg2 in real time

you can see precise real specs in www.ati.com

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