DVDXpress DX2 questinon

palyons · Post by **palyons** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:57 pm

I apologize if this has already been asked or not, but is there any known workaround to get the ADS plugins ADSCirrusUSB2.dll and ADSCirrusUSB2RC.dll to work properly with VideoStudio 10? I know I can use CapWiz and VideoStudio 9 SE that came with the DVDXpress DX2, but the fact of the matter is, I was hoping very highly to capture in an unrestricted avi file, preferably using a codec like Huffyuv or PICVideo.

Any help on this would be appreciated. Thank you.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:49 pm

According to this post Corel/Ulead doesn't currently support ANY analog capture.

I have always recommend using the capture software that's especially made for your capture hardware, CapWiz in your case. Some capture-hardware and capture-software just doesn't "play well together."

I was hoping very highly to capture in an unrestricted avi file, preferably using a codec like Huffyuv or PICVideo.

I'm not sure, but I suspect that your hardware won't allow that. And, if you do get it to work, it might be capturing to MPEG-2, and converting it on-the-fly.

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Corel's next patch may take care of the problem with your capture device, since it worked with older versions. But in general, I don't expect much overall progress on this analog capture issue... Analog is "so last century, man". I think it would involve standardizing the hardware-drivers... For example, Microsoft has a standard for printer drivers so that all Window programs work with all Windows printers. The printer manufacturers follow the standard when they create the driver, and the software writers follow the standard when they write the application. That way, the application and driver can aways communicate with each other.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:02 pm

Doug -- that thread in your link is restricted to VS11, not 10 or preceding versions...

palyons -- if you have read previous posts about CapWiz etc, you should know that Adstech refuses to share its technology with companies like Corel/Ulead. They want to preserve their proprietary hardware secrets. So as far as we are aware, only CapWiz will work with the capture device, and possibly the version of VS which came with it, which may have been tweaked by Adstech to work with the device.

Does not the VS9 SE DVD allow you to capture using those other formats -- apart from the mpeg-2 which is hardware encoded in the DX2? Mind you, that would be imposing quite a lot of stress on the computer, to convert an incoming mpeg-2 stream to another format on the fly.

palyons · Post by **palyons** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:12 am

Ken Berry,
I am not saying that I wish to convert the mpeg-2 stream from the capture device to another format. I am saying that I wish to capture in Picvideo or Huffyuv or any other similar avi format. The DX2 is already capable of capturing directly to DivX avi, so capturing to other formats supported by avi should not be too much of a problem.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:04 am

No. But what I am saying is that the DX2 is constructed, I had thought, with a hardware chip built into it which received the incoming video signal -- usually analogue -- and converted it to mpeg-2 in the DX itself, rather than in the computer. So the signal arriving in the computer is already mpeg-2. I did not know that the DX2 itself could capture in DivX within itself. I thought that might be done by the capture software CapWiz. But I bow out at this point as I just don't know.