Using a TV tuner card to capture footage from older games with coaxial output. I need help

[Urzu402]

I had my new capture card working with the coaxial input but all of a sudden it stopped working, I dont know what I was doing wrong but its not the system because it works on my tv still. Also, when I try to use the composite inputs, it works for a few seconds then turns all blue I dont know what's up. Any help would be appreciated

[Kitsune Sniper]

Telling us what capture device you're using would help.

[Urzu402]

Telling us what capture device you're using would help.

Ok, its a PCI internal card its model number and what not is, Sony TV Tuner Card BTF-PA402Z ENX-26 PCVA-IMB5A. like i said i found the driver my computer recongizes it but when I try to capture off the composite inputs it just turns blue after a few seconds.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Ah, crap. I only found a driver for it at Sony's site. Sorry. :(

[Urzu402]

Ah, crap. I only found a driver for it at Sony's site. Sorry. :(

Would you please give me a link to the driver? Maybe the driver I got for it is bad because I got it off a weird site.

[Urzu402]

I'm sorry this Isn't a classic game example but this is from my PSP to the Composite input of the card

http://imgur.com/a/nhQ2F

It goes from Pic 1 to Pic 2 in like 1 second, I don't know why

[Enmity]

have you tried updating your graphics card drivers also?

[Urzu402]

have you tried updating your graphics card drivers also?

No I haven't, so I'll try to do so.

[Urzu402]

It didn't work

[Jorpho]

I had my new capture card working with the coaxial input but all of a sudden it stopped workingPerhaps you accidentally clicked the wrong button and switched from NTSC to PAL or something? What capture software are you using? Have you tried VirtualDub?

The best way to rule out hardware problems is generally to boot your computer with a live Linux CD and see if everything works correctly there – assuming that Linux drivers exist for your capture card.

[Urzu402]

Perhaps you accidentally clicked the wrong button and switched from NTSC to PAL or something? What capture software are you using? Have you tried VirtualDub?

The best way to rule out hardware problems is generally to boot your computer with a live Linux CD and see if everything works correctly there – assuming that Linux drivers exist for your capture card.

I was using VLC, the card has an MPEG 2 encoder. right now im downloading Ubuntu to make a bootable usb flash drive

[Jorpho]

Gee, I didn't even know VLC did video capture these days. Perhaps it auto-updated itself, and you should try using an older version?

Surely Sony provides some sort of capture software for this card themselves? Does it still work correctly?

[Urzu402]

Well the video in Ubuntu works great but no sound, I get no video but good sound in Windows what gives?

[YoshiM]

What version of Windows are you running? Have there been any Windows update since last the coaxial input worked? For kicks you could try a System Restore from a past date to see if something from Microsoft gummed up your capture works.

Next step would be to completely remove the device from Windows, reboot and have Windows redetect it again (if you haven't already).

I second using VirtualDub. My capture card, a ViSX Pure TV, got nailed by Vista's closing of the "analog hole" (I blame Gateway-the sold a video capture PC but the analog wouldn't work out of the box) and VirtualDub was the best way to get video from composite. It took a little jimmying with the settings (sometimes no image, sometimes no sound) but once you get it set, it works very well.

[Urzu402]

Well I csn get it to work with the coxial input, I was playing Berserk for 2600 on my pc. but anything I plug into the composite turns blue I can't figure out why, and In ubuntu the video works great but Ubuntu doesnt recognize the card as a sound device.

[Jorpho]

At this point have you tried using anything other than VLC in Windows? Now that we have determined the hardware is not faulty (no sound in Linux is something I would very likely attribute to Linux), clearly the problem is something in the software.

Maybe you can try completely uninstalling VLC and re-installing it from whatever you originally downloaded.

[Urzu402]

Well I got it to work, turns out there is something wrong with the PSP's composite output or something which makes it turn blue. So I tried my Sega Saturn and it sorta worked, there was no turning blue but instead a massive 2 second input delay that renders games unplayable, also when I try to use the card in xSplit it doesnt work the picture gets all jarbled up. and if I remember right the input delay wasnt too bad in Ubuntu. oh and I got it to work in a program called AVS recorder.