Ken - if you read this one, my apologies for not reading the tech supoort answer a little more carefully as there was more information there than I first gleaned. Here is their response regarding my Plextor Convertx:
Usually, most Plextor's capture devices are hardware compression capture devices and thus videos uses this compression. VideoStudio doesn't support this kind of hardware codecs since the software only supports "Video for Windows" and "DirectShow" capture driver.
So, my question is- Am I reading this correctly that it is not specifically Plextor, but really any device that uses hardware compression that will not work?
If I m understanding this correctly they are referring to a driver - is that different or the same as the tweaking that you referred to?
I'm thinking not as the way I read this, Ulead is sayin it is a type of capture as opposed to the particualr device that is used that is the problem.
The advantage to hardware compression is that it is faster than software which is why I prefer it over the firewire. You probably can't answer this one but why would Ulead not support Hardware compression?
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You are probably right that I can't answer this question. However, my understanding is that companies like Plextor and Adstech have developed hardware chips which they include in their proprietary capture devices to encode the video in the device itself.
It is also my understanding that to protect the proprietary nature of this hardware chip -- and thus their edge over the competitors -- that these companies won't release the relevant technical details to software manufacturers like Ulead.
When they tweak Ulead (or other) software to work with their hardware, they include either a codec and/or other specific driver so that the software can read the video encoded by their hardware. But of course, they will again not share the details as this would undercut their profit margin and technological edge over their competitors...
It is also my understanding that to protect the proprietary nature of this hardware chip -- and thus their edge over the competitors -- that these companies won't release the relevant technical details to software manufacturers like Ulead.
When they tweak Ulead (or other) software to work with their hardware, they include either a codec and/or other specific driver so that the software can read the video encoded by their hardware. But of course, they will again not share the details as this would undercut their profit margin and technological edge over their competitors...
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