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March 24, 2005
Analog Digital Video Converter Issues
Okay. This is frustrating. First of all none of the ADVC USB adapters borrowed from the lab worked, both for my Powerbook and for the Dell towers in the lab. I have been tinkering with those things now for weeks! Trying to find the correct drivers and the correct settings... wondering if it's the director Xtra at fault or not... Finally, today I figured out that the school has WinTV cards in some of the Dell towers. So, I worked with that for a few hours, and finally got the stupid thing to work upon realization that the drivers hadn't been installed. I have been wasting my time, it feels -- just because the old adapter that I used a year ago does not exist anymore in the lab, and because there wasn't anything I could use in the lab. Plus that it takes ages for things to be ordered in the lab.
I don't really want to depend on the PC tower to get my project working with the lab closing so early all the time. So it's frustrating. I am thinking about purchasing a Canopus ADVC-55, but they are not so cheap. Hopefully Ebay will have them for less. I guess no one uses analog video anymore?
Posted by kaho at March 24, 2005 11:10 PM