[vlc] Problem using VLC with "capture device"

[Derek Clarke]

Why don't you use whatever software ATI provided with the card?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM, LoneWolfSullivan
<lone.wolf.studio.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I want to view VHS videos on my PC with my VCR using VLC.
>
> I have a Radeon video card for this.
>
> Unfortunately, VLC is the only software I can find with a "capture device"
> input.
>
> Also unfortunate, is that the VLC software is extremely over-complicated to
> use for this purpose and I cannot get it to work.
>
> Most of the time there is no image.  When there is an image, it is usually
> very poor quality.  However, sometimes for a few seconds when it starts the
> image is very good.
>
> I have tried everything by trial and error for HOURS!  Failure.  Caching and
> making changes does no good.  There is absolutely nothing about this in your
> FAQs (there never is) and I have a complete aversion to Forums--they are
> useless and a place where this Lone Wolf does not belong.  I don't want to
> join your VLC club, I just want to watch movies.
>
> How do I configure VLC to simply display the image it receives from my
> Radeon card in "capture device" mode?   Sound is not required, just a good
> picture in real time.
>
> What I want to do is simple and straight forward.  I am not a computer nerd,
> and I refuse to become one.  It's great that VLC is the only software with
> the "capture device" feature, but since it doesn' work easily, documentation
> and SIMPLE instructions should be provided.
>
> If you cannot help with this, I strongly urge VLC to get rid of the "capture
> device" feature, because so far it has been a headache and waste of my time
> for me.
>
> WOLF
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