Nebula DigiTV analougue capture

[MattyJ]

Hey guys,

I've been using the Nebula DigiTV card for a while now and its great! My dad wants me to copy an old video onto a DVD for him, and I thought it'd be fine as the card has an analogue in, so i hooked it up to the vcr. This is when my troubles started, neither Nebula's own software or Dscaler will pick up a video signal, they both show a blue screen.

At the moment i've got an adapter from scart to a yellow-red-white lead (composite?) hanging out the video, with the yellow plug conncected to the yellow socket on the card, and the red plug to the black socket. Am I just being stupid and using the wrong lead?

Any help would be appreciated, plus any general tips in conversion anyone has,
cheers in advance,

Matt

[njg291075]

On the cable you describe, Yellow is Video with Red being Right Channel Audio and White is Left Channel

I haven't got one of these cards so card say for sure which sockets you should use tho.

[sambartle]

I have a nebula as well and haven't managed to get any input at all until i reformatted.. after that installing the nebula software at the latest version seemed to magically enable the Analogue in.

What i'd suggest you try is uninstall the app.. delete ALL the files left in the nebula folder and uninstall the card from device manager. (dont reboot if prompted)
Search the Windows/INF (its hidden) folder for any OEMx.inf files and open each in notepad (oem1, oem2...) and once you find any that relate to nebula electroinics or DigiTV delete them.

Now install the latest nebula software and then reboot for it to detect the card again where it will ask for drivers again (because you removed the inf's) and you can point it to the c:\program files\nebula\digitv\drivers folder to find them

That might help.

[MattyJ]

Well that didn't work :confused:. I don't really want another install of windows, tho I might just do a mini one on a seperate partition if that's all that'll make it work.

Does anyone know if I am actually using the right connections? I don't wanna fiddle loads only to find that its cos I'm using a composite instead of an S-Video input or something along those lines... Its a shame to have this trouble after what seemed to be a faultless piece of equipment.

[sambartle]

The yellow one is the Composite Video in, the black socket is the audio in.

It's totally random i have now decided.. when i first used it it worked fine, now it won't select the card in the software it keeps showing my webcam only.

The analogue is something they are working on and a future update should improve it considerably.

You are right though its annoying and it is the worst feature of this card.