AIW 7500 Recording Problems

sircanegiem · Jul 24, 2007, 11:11 PM

Yes, I know, the 7500 is "teh suck"... I built a second PC with a 2Ghz processor and two 100GB hard drives just for video recording along with this card to start a small side business converting VHS to DVD, so I'm definitely not using it for gaming... except maybe Diablo 2.

Anyway, here's the problem. I installed the card and put on all the utilities and drivers from the driver CD, and then tried to record in VideoStudio 6 that came with the card, and I ran into a huge problem. (I have since tried VirtualDub and WinDVR 3 with the same results, by the way.)

Here's what I do: turn the video input to composite video, which then shows my VHS tape playing on the screen. I pick the resolution I want to record at and click record. I record what I want, hit stop, and then go to play it back again... and this is where the problem occurs: the first four or five frames of the recording come through fine, and then those frames just continuously loop the entire duration of the recording. The sound capture works fine, but the video just keeps on repeating the same five frames over and over until the end of the capture. The strange thing is, the very top 1/10th of the recording I can see is being recorded correctly, and the other 90% of the video is just repeating over and over. I uploaded a short 15-second example of this here from the movie ET: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...92997127881753

Anything to help solve this would be helpful. As far as I know, I've done everything correctly, and I've been installing video cards for a long long time.

Edit: I also tried to update the drivers from ATI's website but that did more harm than help: now the program I would use to watch TV that was included with the card gets an error every time I try to open it and closes. gg ati.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jul 25, 2007, 01:12 PM

Have you tried simply using all the software that came on your original installation CD?

sircanegiem · Jul 25, 2007, 10:36 PM

Yeah, that's what I had tried originally, just installing everything that came on the install CDs. After that didn't work, then I tried updating drivers and stuff. Personally I think the card itself is bad.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Aug 29, 2007, 11:26 PM

Well the only way to prove or disprove that is try an identical card and see if the same scenario nets the same problem. It isn't out of the question though.

Did you ever resolve this issue?