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GeForce4 Ti4400 128mb AGP card, SBLive XGamer PCI, 1.9 Ghz Athlon processor, 512Mb RAM, Maxtor and WD ATA100 80 Gb HDs, running Win98SE. Latest MSI Nvidia drivers, BIOS, and WDM capture drivers installed, along with DirectX 8.1. 2d, 3d, and video out work perfectly.
After my old problems (unable to edit Mpg2, bad AVI recording, occasional crashes w/ WinProducer), I managed to puzzle out the AVI problem (not actually bad AVi, just interlaced, VirtualDub fixes it easily), but I still couldn't edit MPG-2 files and WinProducer crashed quite often. VirtualDub will edit my AVI files no problem but won't recognize the video capture or edit Mpg2 files. I started using iuVCR for recording AVIs as a workaround.
It's been a while since I cleaned out my comp so I wiped and repartitioned the Maxtor80GB into 10-30-40 partitions and installed a WD 80GB I had on my shelf unpartititioned so I would have as much uninterrupted storage as possible. Reinstalled Win98SE, reinstalled AGP drivers, MSI latest NVidia drivers and the WDM capture drivers to see if maybe a clean system with more room will work better. According to the System control panel, all display and capture drivers are working and no resource conflicts.
Now WinProducer crashes even more and the composite-in is broken! Irregardless of the program used, I get a greyscale image like what you get if it's trying to receive SVHS video but getting composite, and won't change. Even switching to tuner which would generate garbage originally doesn't do anything, so it looks like it's stuck in SVHS input. WinProducer crashes totally at random and always at exiting, and the errors alternate between Kernel32 and MFC42.dll page faults, taking down the whole system. iuVCR won't capture anything except audio now as well.
Oddly enough, in the few minutes that it's worked, WinProducer will now open, play, and edit Mpeg2 files that I recorded before the wipe.
I researched the MFC42 problem and the only thing I found was problems stemming from duplicates installed by other programs (Iomega's ZIP drivers), so I wiped all but the c:/windows/system one and replaced it with the original off of the Win98SE installation disc.
WinProducer refused to open after that, citing dll association link errors for several codec-looking files. Reinstalling produced similar errors during installation and it wouldn't start up again. I got the latest version of the MFC42.dll from Microsoft and it would start up again... but it still crashes.
So now composite video in is screwed up, and WinProducer is totally useless. According to the MSI FAQ section, WinCoder 2.0 is part of WinProducer 2.0 now which is why it's not on the CD as listed, but even downloading the version 3 of both programs from InterVideo gets the same errors, and researching reviews of the various versions of the Ti4400 show the WinProducer and WinCoder bundle as totally separate programs on other manufacturer's versions.
I have yet to get a response from MSI's email tech support regarding these problems, and I'm about to go nuts here. I'm going to try InterVideo and see if they'll make an exception to their "no OEM support" policy, but in the meantime I'm stuck. Has anyone else actually figured out where the hell WinCoder *is*? It's not in WinProducer or on the disc labeled "WinProducer and WinCoder". Or what possibly could make a brand new, clean installation work worse than a six month old installation?
Help.
After my old problems (unable to edit Mpg2, bad AVI recording, occasional crashes w/ WinProducer), I managed to puzzle out the AVI problem (not actually bad AVi, just interlaced, VirtualDub fixes it easily), but I still couldn't edit MPG-2 files and WinProducer crashed quite often. VirtualDub will edit my AVI files no problem but won't recognize the video capture or edit Mpg2 files. I started using iuVCR for recording AVIs as a workaround.
It's been a while since I cleaned out my comp so I wiped and repartitioned the Maxtor80GB into 10-30-40 partitions and installed a WD 80GB I had on my shelf unpartititioned so I would have as much uninterrupted storage as possible. Reinstalled Win98SE, reinstalled AGP drivers, MSI latest NVidia drivers and the WDM capture drivers to see if maybe a clean system with more room will work better. According to the System control panel, all display and capture drivers are working and no resource conflicts.
Now WinProducer crashes even more and the composite-in is broken! Irregardless of the program used, I get a greyscale image like what you get if it's trying to receive SVHS video but getting composite, and won't change. Even switching to tuner which would generate garbage originally doesn't do anything, so it looks like it's stuck in SVHS input. WinProducer crashes totally at random and always at exiting, and the errors alternate between Kernel32 and MFC42.dll page faults, taking down the whole system. iuVCR won't capture anything except audio now as well.
Oddly enough, in the few minutes that it's worked, WinProducer will now open, play, and edit Mpeg2 files that I recorded before the wipe.
I researched the MFC42 problem and the only thing I found was problems stemming from duplicates installed by other programs (Iomega's ZIP drivers), so I wiped all but the c:/windows/system one and replaced it with the original off of the Win98SE installation disc.
WinProducer refused to open after that, citing dll association link errors for several codec-looking files. Reinstalling produced similar errors during installation and it wouldn't start up again. I got the latest version of the MFC42.dll from Microsoft and it would start up again... but it still crashes.
So now composite video in is screwed up, and WinProducer is totally useless. According to the MSI FAQ section, WinCoder 2.0 is part of WinProducer 2.0 now which is why it's not on the CD as listed, but even downloading the version 3 of both programs from InterVideo gets the same errors, and researching reviews of the various versions of the Ti4400 show the WinProducer and WinCoder bundle as totally separate programs on other manufacturer's versions.
I have yet to get a response from MSI's email tech support regarding these problems, and I'm about to go nuts here. I'm going to try InterVideo and see if they'll make an exception to their "no OEM support" policy, but in the meantime I'm stuck. Has anyone else actually figured out where the hell WinCoder *is*? It's not in WinProducer or on the disc labeled "WinProducer and WinCoder". Or what possibly could make a brand new, clean installation work worse than a six month old installation?
Help.