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| ATI Radeon VIVO | Graphics Card Analog VideoIn |
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AGP | $50 | 8.7/10 27 votes |
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| Experience the excitement of 64MB of 3D graphics power. The 64MB RADEON™ graphics board features the fastest 32-bit color 3D graphics available, advanced 3D technology and a robust T&L engine for 3D realism, together with DVD video playback, still image/full motion video capture and TV/VCR output.
At-a-glance Powered by the ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU) 64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory Featuring ATI\'s CHARISMA ENGINE™ and PIXEL TAPESTRY™ technologies The most robust integrated Transformation and Lighting (T&L) Accelerates all of today\'s top 3D games Industry best DVD playback Video capture and TV/VCR-output support (retail version) Optional video capture and TV/VCR-output support (non-retail versions) Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536 AGP Universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems) Featuring CATALYST™ - ATI\'s industry-leading software suite with frequently scheduled free updates providing additional features and performance over the product\'s lifetime |
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This is a great card! I got it bundled with my system, at the time not aware of the basics of video editing/capturing etc. By a stroke of good luck I hit on this system, the captures work fine, almost flawless (VHS>mpeg2/avi, S-Video as well as Composite input). For avi PicVideo Mjpeg codec, no loss of frames(res. 720x576, Quality 15)! (WinXP SP2, latest ATI Catalyst, 1.8 GHz, 80 GB HDD, 256 MB RAM) VirtualVCR, VirtualDubMod, iuVCR, PowerVCRII, Ulead DVD Power Tools 2, all give good, even great results. Especially well are iuVCR (no dropped frames) and Ulead. I would like results from Power VCRII even better, but somehow it does not get enough speed, even with fine-tuned system, to avoid frame-loss. I have the MMC-problem as well, the later versions of MMC always give "...could not initalize..." (s. below). The version 7.7 would work, but only with the Catalyst-driver that came with the card, and that's no good. No high resolutions possible and great frame-loss with that early-on driver. Comments posted by nbarzgar from Germany, March 23, 2005: Compatibility: |
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to Vault Dweller: the problem you stated with MMC is caused by... you gessed it! the ATI Catalyst drivers!! it is a pity we can't have the latest drivers from ATI (well, maybe it doesnt matter too much...) i have tried litterally every version of Catalyst, and always same problem. when reverting to the drivers that came with the card, or dowloaded from the manufacture's site (Gigabyte in my case, i guess yours is the same) it solved the problem Comments posted by kobi naor from Israel, January 30, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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After putting the card into a Athlon 1.33GHz PC with updated MoBo and sound card I had NO TROUBLE with audio popping at all. Captures flawlessly with less than 0.0005% frameloss. (IE: I dropped about 95 frames out of 215,000 for a 2 hour movie). Quality looks great. Using FreeVCR and VirtualDub and TMpeg on WinXP SP1a with v4.8 Catalyst drivers. Now if only I had more RAM and dual 3.0 GHz CPUs. ; ) - Vault Dweller Comments posted by danscudder from United States, September 12, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Very good results so far... After reading many reviews on Videohelp.com, as well as LordSmurf's detailed articles on capturing techniques with this line of cards, I decided to try one. It was probably the best $50.00 (us) that I've ever spent. Purchassed an ECS Radeon 9200 VIVO/DVI with 128mb DDR ram from NewEgg.com. So far, testing in video out from PC1 Radeon 8500 to video in on PC2 with Radeon 9200 VIVO has been problematic, but not unexpected for a new project like this. However, after reading everyone's comments on versions of MMC and DirectX, as well as LordSmurf's articles on capture technique, codecs to use, and whether to use interlaced/deinterlaced, I finally found reasonable success. Was able to capture a clip of 4000+ frames to AVI using either HUFFYUV or MJPEG at 352x480 interlaced at 29.97 FPS and 48 KHz audio with, literally, less than 0.5% frameloss. I'm capturing in CVD standard to put multiple movies onto 1 DvD for my wife's OLD movie colection. Might even go down to 352x240 if the quality doesn't suffer too much. AND this was on an old AMD K6-2 500MHz PC (not overclocked) with 196 MB ram using WinXP SP1 and NTFS filesystem. Also using latest catalyst (4.8) and DirectX 9.0c and VirtualDub 1.5.10. NOTES... ALWAYS use Win2000 or XP and NTFS filesystem for capturing. Win98 does not manage system resources as well as 2000 or XP, and the NTFS filesystem is faster to read/write to than the FAT32 filesystem. ANY version of ATI MMC did not work on this card (tried 7.7, 8.1, 8.7, 8.8 and laest 9.x). Every time I tried to start up TV to record I got the error message that 'VIDEO could not be initialized'. Maybe a driver issue? Maybe a firmware issue? But VirtualDub DOES pick up the WDM capture drivers just fine. BUT, I AM noticing a slight popping sound on playback on DvD player. The Software that COMES with this card did work but it SUX. It s InterVideo WinDvD Creator, and it will NOT allow me to make specific settings, such as what resolution and framerate to capture to. AND it only wants to capture straight to MPEG2, which I do NOT want to do. AND it kept crashing/locking up when I tried to capture to SVCD standard resolution. It's only redeeming quality is that it DOES see the ATI Rage Theater chipset / WDM capture drivers. From this point, I plan to try DirectX 8.1 and a firmware update from ECS (if available) to see if I can get rid of the popping. If that works, I'm there! MANY THANKS to all the posters and authors out there! Your documentation was a TREMENDOUS help...and a great learning experience. Comments posted by Vault Dweller from United States, August 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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This card rocks, ATI's drivers suck. Once you get the proper drivers (likley not the newest) installed correctly it works like a dream, beautiful 2d, beautiful tv output, beautiful capture no dropped frames even up to the highest resolution (on my 1.2ghz tbird w/5400rpm 120gig hd and 512megs of ram). I've been using it for nearly 3 years now, and periodically I decide to try to find a better version of drivers and I regret it every time - the process is a nightmare. If you get this card check out www.rage3d.com lots of great information. Comments posted by Dan from Other, August 22, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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This video/capture card is superb. I love this video card so much. I don't use ATI software(not really that good). I used Cyberlink PowerVCR II for the capturing (works awsome). I capture in Mpeg-2(highest quality) & convert it to VCD using Tmpgenc. If you capture in VCD Standard format, then the quality is kind a low. The video card is awsome but I guess you need a good software to go along with it. I paid for the video card like $230 in Jan. 2000. I have been using it ever since Jan. 2000 and still working awsome. Highly recommended for this product. Comments posted by david from Other, May 26, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Excellent quality MPEG2 capture; full 720X480, 29.97 fps, no skipped frames. Picture quality is superb with the default "DVD high" settings - indistinguishable from a direct connection to the TV from the video camera! If you want to capture AVI it's a little bit limited, though; the bandwidth seems to be too small for uncompressed (or minimally compressed)capture. Too bad, too; I'm having trouble finding a program that'll edit MPEG2 without costing more than my car.... As a video card, no complaints; good quality picture and fast enough for most games. Drivers are STILL buggy; even the very latest (ca. 2003) drivers have strange problems! I can't install the DVD player without messing up the video capture program, for instance... It's still telling me that my DirectX 8.1b installation is faulty, too; this with a fresh OS install and the latest update from Microsoft.... Comments posted by ecm from Other, February 20, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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With newer Radeon drivers ( wdm ) and direct X 9, I've run into problems with Audio Synching and popping when recording into MPG or AVI. This is apparantly a known issue with ATI Radeons, and I cannot do anything except go back to older WDM and drivers ( inc. directX 8 ). ATI software sucks, but I've captured with this card before without any popping or audio distortion. Recoring at 352~ or 720~ seamless on 7200, less than 1% dropped on undefragged drive. P3 - 866 / 100MHZ FSB with XP Pro and latest ATI drivers. Recommended but beware of popping / hissing audio. Comments posted by Jaymes from Other, January 24, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? |
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I have to say, hands down the best capture card I've used. DVD quality (mp2) capture on a 610Mhz machine with a 5200 rpm HDD, no dropped frames. I din't even defrag first. I am impressed. I did however notice that this is ONLY possible under XP and with the newest revision of their software. I plan on trying VirtualDub soon as I get my DSS back up. Note some technical specs that may help this process: Bus speed is 148mhz, 2x agp at the time (slightly overclocked ASUS 533) For a modern computer I could only expect better. I will only buy Vivo series cards ATI-AIW qualifies :) Comments posted by Jeremy from Other, December 24, 2002: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Radeon 64 DDR Vivo (Radeon 7200) If you have enough patience for that terrible ATI software, this card is superb. And it only requires a _fast_ hard drive - 5400 rpm simply won't do. I do have one big problem, however. Standard says that "full" PAL resolution is 768*576 (4:3), but this card will only capture up to 720*576. Why? Any ideas will really be appreciated. (Win2k Pro) Comments posted by Srdjan from Other, December 10, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Mine is an OEM VIVO model based on the 9000 Radeon chip (sold under the Sapphire brand), but it uses the ATI Retail drivers. The name is the 9000 Radeon Atlantis. This model should be slightly better than the original based on the 9000 chip. I found the best results going direct to MPEG2 using ATI's MMC 7.7 software. Virtualdub didn't cut it at the higher resolution (720x480), too many dropped frames. Quite impressive for the price! I'd be willing to try other capture software, but so far best results go with the ATI software. Comments posted by jerry62 from Other, November 30, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I have used this card for a long time now the ATI Radeon 64mb VIVO does kick some serious butt for the price you pay - But I had a shock when I tried to capture video directly into premiere 6 recently - the software wouldnt detect my card - when using ATI own software it captures fine but this is completely useless if u want to do stuff like 'stop-motion' capture which is why I wanted to use premiere. I hope ATI release a download for this (Although thats hoping as its been a long time since the card has been out now) - This is an excellenet card but come on ATI u can do better than this in terms of software compatability. Comments posted by Suchet from Other, October 27, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Hi, i have had this card for a month, i use Virtual Dub to cap and Tempgnc to encode. It a fantastic card for the price, get it as a cheap option its great. Drivers are a pain to install and i have probs with it working under XP. But for 2k no probs... Comments posted by Steve from Other, October 11, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K |
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Card installed seamlessly in Windows XP. It captured perfectly from my SVHS vcr. Sound is synchronized perfectly. The only matter that I didn't like is that the software named the captured file with a *.mp2 extension. But I changed the name to *.mpg, and Adobe Premier 6 read the file correctly. Comments posted by David Lamar from Other, May 03, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I am running this card on a P-IV 1.5 Ghz system with an IBM 7200 rpm drive and 512Mb of RAM under Win98. I am capturing at 720x480 with 0 frame loss. I had trouble at first with the drivers getting blown almost all the time but the new drivers with DirectX 8.1a all that is gone. The only draw back is that the the proprietary MPG2 codec makes it difficult to find third party capture or recompression software but because so many of these cards are in place more and more software manufacturers are supporting it. Infact any package that supports Direct Show will work with it. As for games it is AWSOME!!! For the price, this card rocks!!!! Comments posted by Moptop159 from Other, April 18, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4 MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I got this card to replace my GeForce2 MX400 64mb and I think it's completely fantastic! I've wasted my time (and money) in the past with Hauppauage USB video capture and Miro DC30 cards, so to get an all-in-one solution was brillant. Had an initial problem setting up but that was only becuase there were some remnants of the old nVidia drivers left- once they had been despatched the thing worked perfectly. I was also surprised with the video capture which was A1. Couldn't beleive it- plugged in my camcorder and started capturing without a hitch! Cheers ATI!.I'll be keeping this card for a good while yet as it also gets round the horrible WindowsXP Install "Lock-up" situation that I was plagued with on the nVidia card. Comments posted by Phill 16v from Other, March 14, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? |
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Unable to play back any files using MMC 7.5 under WinXP Pro but capture is great. Feeding composite and stereo audio in from a Sky Digital decoder, playback to tv using S-Video and stereo audio leads. Just a shame it doesn't capture from svideo too. Comments posted by Pugwash from Other, February 17, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I just got this for christmas and other than the fact it can't record macrovision sources :), its a great card. Lots of speed and fairly easy to install. I say fairly because you have to do that back-asswards install a standard VGA mode first then the card WTF? Anyways, great bang for the buck! Anyone who knows how to "work around" the macrovison would be hailed as my personal hero (hint,hint) so far the hardware way is the only way i have found that will work--i.e. build a remover. Comments posted by Stu from Other, January 09, 2002: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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l can't get it to work,..it will not restart after the intstallation,(or if you just wanna restart) it just shows a black screen, af if it should "come to life", it would take 15 secounds and then the screen will flicker- big problem with restart!! Comments posted by tom hansen from Other, December 03, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Quite good card. Mpeg1 quality is not best, quite good. That video-in prob, is solved when you use that prog that disables(or makes less sensitive) macrovision protection. I've used it, no more looping and flickering. Ati's fault that macrovision protection system in this card is so sensitive. Comments posted by Zeppo from Other, October 19, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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My system - AMD 1.2Ghz / 256 RAM / 45 Gig HD / Creative 128 PCI sound. I use this card with Windows XP / vdub, and it works great... I have a SCART out from my digital TV, and The Simpsons and stuff capture amazingly well (I do 'em into DivX) - the TV-out is faultless too... f u capture something and watch it in TV-out you really cannot faukt the quality. I am very pleased I purchased this card, after a bit of disappointment in this field in the past.. games and stuff? well look at the demos you can get.... oooh baby. My own nark is capturing at 60fps produces a *VERY SLIGHTY* flickery, sometimes jerky image (although bear in mind I am only using a Maxtor 5400 RPM drive, and am often downloadnig stuff at the same time!!!!!) Buy this card.. honest, it's the most all ruond fun. Comments posted by Mikey from Other, October 13, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I use this Card capturing Movies in VCD Pal Format to play them in my Standalone DVD Player. The Quality is very impressive when creating a own VCD compatible Profile with a 1150 KB Bitrate in MMC 7.1 (MMC is the Capture Soft from ATI), not that VCD Profil what ATI offers. The new Software MPEG Encoder developed by ATI has a MULTIPLEXING ERROR, so I cannot edit Movies using VITEC´s MPEG Edit Pro. I have downloaded a Programm from Hauppauge called VCDCONVERT to solve this Problem. Since ATI uses only WDM Capture Drivers for the RADEON VIVO there is, so far I now, no Possibility to use the older MMC 6.3 Software whitch uses the better LIGOS GOMOTION Engine for Encoding MPEG. Sorry ATI but that sucks! Comments posted by user from Other, August 28, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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*Asus A7V mobo, BIOS 1005A * Athlon-B 1Ghz (o/c to 1.33Ghz) *Western Digital ATA100 30Gb HD, one FAT32 partition * 768 CAS3 RAM *Win2k (no SP inst.), May beta drivers *Win98SE, May 2001 drivers * Multimedia package 7.01, and MGI VideoEdit 4 s/w Maybe this is a h/w compatibility problem, but when no composite video input or output is connected, the video-in programs display a black screen with a white flicker at the top. When video is connected, on first- or second-gen VHS tape playback, there is a looping effect (the tapes are not macrovision encoded). On off-air or store-bought tapes (including those w/macrovision on them), I can record from them. However, when I do record - despite configuring everything for 30fps, the playback feels like it's ~25 FPS. I tried a USB-based Dazzle digital video creator device (long, slender, silver in color); which had cost me $200. Though it was able to display the first- and second-gen VHS tapes without the garbled screen effect, the playback like it was ~15FPS and the video quality was not nearly as good as on the ATi VIVO card. I need to stress that the problem tapes producing the video anomaly are NOT copyguarded (I dubbed them 5 years ago for backups.) It could be a signal strength issue; these tapes being played back are also 10 years old (hence my strong desire to digitize them!) I will be creating a bare-bones Intel P3-700mhz system just to check for other problems w/the video card, et cetera. The fact other Athlon users claim they can record w/out problems makes me wonder if there's some sort of interference caused by the hardware itself. Assuming I am the odd one out, "7" is still a reasonable user rating. Comments posted by Dave Cole from Other, August 20, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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This is the most awsome video card ever. It works perfectly for all the games I play (Counter-Strike, Diablo 2, Tribes 2) and captures great. After updating the drivers, I was able to capture in VirtualDub to get the best quality. The video out is a little bit buggy since there seems to be black borders on top, bottom, left and right of the video, but since I can't really see the borders too well I don't really care. Great card all around, buy now! Comments posted by Johnny Lee from Other, May 16, 2001: Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I use driver version 7075, mediacenter 7.1 Capturing relatime with Athlon 900, Kt133A chipset, UDMA 100 HD. No frame loss even with MPEG2(if i don't move the mouse). Sound 100% in sync. Reports about video looping when capturing: this happens only when recording from a macrovision protected source.. Comments posted by Peter from Other, May 03, 2001: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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