My Broadway Realtime MPEG-1 Capture card worked fine in Windows 2000,

Ive recently applied Service Pack 1 and When Ive come to use the card and software it just crashes. I don't want to go back to removing the SP1, If I can help it.

Anyone else got a Broadway card and have it working with Win2K SP1

FYI: The card works fine in Windows ME (MSDN release version)

Im also looking for any contacts with the Broadway card as we seem to be a rare breed.

-- Nigel Arnold (narnold@cableinet.co.uk), August 28, 2000

Answers

Hi Nigel, I am using Broadway too. only v2.0 board though not the latest board version. But v.2 seems to have all the Pro version capability. I suspect they just rename the product range. Mine works fine in win98se, win2k and win2k sp1... But when in win2k, the refresh of the screen is bad, sometimes i got grey window, and when my mouse move over it, black boxes will trail along the mouse. I guess it is the "overlay" problem of my graphic cards. Otherwise, no problem with my Broadway.

Agree that it seems to be a rare breed. The MPEG compression is not very good, though. Maybe that is why... I compress using other software to encode to MPEG.

Rusman

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), August 30, 2000.

hi do you think DARIM M-FILTER can improve braodway pro mpeg encoding quality ? thanks

-- mpg1vcd (mpg1vcd@yahoo.com), August 31, 2000.

Never use M-Filter myself. But yes, people said it will reduce the artefacts caused by analog source. The price of the card is probably more than Broadway itself, right? Besides, if you plan to do single pass with Broadway + M-Filter, I don't think Broadway is that good an encoder. I like its AVI file, vivid colours, very nice especially at high bit rate. But I prefer to encode it with Panasonic or TMPEG rather than using Broadway's hardware encoder.

Cheers,

Rusman

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), September 01, 2000.

I personally have my M-filter hooked up to my TV tuner/capture card, I capture at 640X480 with the huffyuv codec which is the best quality codec for the space and quality, then I convert to MPEG using the Broadway (resizing to 350X240 and deinterlacing using virtual dub and it's fserv capabilities).

Quality is professional i think.

-- MrVCD (mrvcd@juno.com), September 04, 2000.