Fedora essentially *is* RedHat, actually. ;-) It gets my vote, in any event.
Mitch At 04:55 PM 10/7/2004 -0500, you wrote: > Ahh, well, if that's the case I'm going to have to get in bed with one of > the new Linux for my multi machine main node, soooo, which is easiest? I > was told that Fedora was the most similar to Red Hat? Any suggestions would > be helpful. Thanks > > Jim > > Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist > North Dakota State University > Fargo, ND 58105 > > Phone # (701)231-6247 > E-mail: jim.senec...@ndsu.nodak.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Crummett [mailto:roncrumm...@caynetco.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:34 PM > To: Jim Senechal > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Video capture help? > > Jim - > > I seem to recall hearing something quite a while ago that Windows would only > recognize one Hauppauge card. I know that's not what you want to hear, but > for some reason it works that way. Has this changed? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov]On > Behalf Of Jim Senechal > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:14 PM > To: 'Thomas Uram' > Cc: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Video capture help? > > > That was a good call Thom. I went and got some VFW drivers for he Hauppauge > cards and installed them. Of course it can't go totally smooth. Now when I > try and run node setup wizard I get the Microsoft wdm image capture and 1 > Hauppauge card. Once again, any tricks? Is there some reason XP would be > blocking 3 of them? Thanks for the help. > > Jim > > Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist > North Dakota State University > Fargo, ND 58105 > > Phone # (701)231-6247 > E-mail: jim.senec...@ndsu.nodak.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Uram [mailto:tu...@mcs.anl.gov] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:23 PM > To: Jim Senechal > Cc: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Video capture help? > > Jim: > > 2.3 detects vfw drivers available on your machine, using the same code > that vic does. It should, therefore, show you the same list of devices > that vic shows. The wdm driver you see is a mapper for applications > that only use vfw drivers; you can map one of your devices through it > using "Configure on transmit" in vic, and then selecting the device you > want to use. Unfortunately, you can't use multiple devices this way > (unless you 'configure on transmit' each device with every venue switch). > > If you have vfw drivers installed, 2.3 will detect and use them fine. I > know there are vfw drivers for the Winnov Videum 4400 and the Osprey > cards, and I've seen those work fine. I haven't found vfw drivers for > the Hauppauge cards (or the iTuner Spectra8, for the sake of saying so). > > Tom > > > Jim Senechal wrote: > > >Hello all, > > > >I am trying to set up my video capture machine to run off of Windows XP. > >I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, I am just now running into the > >problem and need a helping hand. I have the standard old Hauppauge capture > >cards in my computer (878 chipset), I downloaded the drivers, installed > >them, and XP seems happy with the cards. I install all the AG 2.3 software > >and when I go to run the node setup wizard the only choice I get is Windows > >wdm image capture? None of the 4 Hauppauge cards show up on the video > >capture machine? Did I miss a step, am I doing something wrong? Some > >little trick I don't know about? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > >Jim > > > >Jim Senechal, Digital Conference Specialist > >North Dakota State University > >Fargo, ND 58105 > > > >Phone # (701)231-6247 > >E-mail: jim.senec...@ndsu.nodak.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Mitch Kutzko | mi...@dast.nlanr.net | mi...@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 217-333-1199 Project: http://dast.nlanr.net/ | Personal: http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
