ATI TV Wonder VE

[CornMaster]

Does anyone have any experience with this card??

I'm having a lot of trouble with it.

[confus-ed]

ATI drivers are never strong, certainly not to start with, so stick with it and hopefully they'll manage some drivers that work eventually.

My tip is to force windows to see your card first as standard vga, with no refernce to ATI anything in device manager, re-boot and then give it the new drivers.

Some symptoms might help, this is descriptive [quote] I'm having a lot of trouble with it.
<hr></blockquote>, yet unfortunately it also describes many ATI cards.....

[Sowulo]

[quote]Originally posted by confus-ed:
<strong>My tip is to force windows to see your card first as standard vga, with no refernce to ATI anything in device manager, re-boot and then give it the new drivers.
</strong><hr></blockquote>


The ATI TV Wonder VE is not a video card at all but a separate TV tuner card....

If you search this Video Adapter/Monitor Driver forum you may find some discussion about this particular card already. I believe we also had a recent discussion about this card in the WindowsXP forum...in addition, more info on what version of Windows you're running, which Video Card you are using, etc., as well as a description of the problems you're having will be helpful to those trying to help....

[CornMaster]

I left out the details on purpose.

I'm running Win2k and WinXP. Under 2k the card works fine......under XP the TV part would lock up. And of course there are many other issues with the card and XP. But most of them have work arounds.

Then I reinstalled both windows (added a bigger hard drive. Then both systems locked up. Then I remembered that Win2k had 12.11 NVIDIA drivers and WinXP has 21.23 (not the newest) so I put 23.21 (or whatever) on both. And both gave me problems. So I forced 12.11 on both Win2k and WinXP and I've had no lock ups since. However...there are still issues with XP, and that's why I keep 2k around.

Basically those problems are solved.

The only other thing I'm having a problem with is the number of channels I pick up. About half of them come though. The rest are just static. I've tried different cables. And it's going directly into the computer before....now I'm going though a splitter and I pick up about 5 more channels!?!?!?

Anyway.....if anyone knows how to get more channels...I'd be grateful.

I've also figured out how to save the video directly to Divx. Of course it shows the estimated time as if the .avi was uncompressed. I just hope that doesn't cause any problems down the road.

Oh...that reminds me....does anyone know of any good freeware Divx editors? I have Adobe Premiere 5.0, but it keeps crashing!!!

P.S. My video card is a GeForce 2 MX400 64 MB with TV OUT.

[Sowulo]

Just to address one issue....splitter improved signal: Double-check all your fittings are snug and consider buying a signal booster (around $20u.s.) My cable modem and ATI All-in-Wonder wouldn't work for crap until I bought the signal booster....