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[johnhanderson]

I have a Dell TVT3 Emuzed Angel dual tv tuner which came with Sonic MyDVD LE.
It supports analog video capture.

I purchased EMC8 (not from Dell, but they do sell it)

I find that the MyDVD that comes with EMC8 does not support the card but MyDVD LE does.

Should I expect to see EMC released with my card supported in the future?

[james_hardin]

johnhanderson, on Feb 22 2006, 04:30 PM, said:

I have a Dell TVT3 Emuzed Angel dual tv tuner which came with Sonic MyDVD LE.
It supports analog video capture.

I purchased EMC8 (not from Dell, but they do sell it)

I find that the MyDVD that comes with EMC8 does not support the card but MyDVD LE does.

Should I expect to see EMC released with my card supported in the future?

Maybe… MyDVD from Sonic and MyDVD from Roxio are two completely unrelated programs!

But capture from Tuner cards has proven to be hit or miss.

[ggrussell]

OEMs like DELL usually alter the program to work specifically with the card it has installed.  It's impossible to support all the analog captures devices. Some are very propietary and even use patented hardware.

[johnhanderson]

ggrussell, on Feb 22 2006, 02:42 PM, said:

OEMs like DELL usually alter the program to work specifically with the card it has installed.  It's impossible to support all the analog captures devices. Some are very propietary and even use patented hardware.

I understand that, but since they support it in MyDVD LE, why wouldn't they support it in EMC8 MyDVD?

[ggrussell]

They as in DELL?  Also MyDVD v6 and earlier were written by Sonic.  MyDVD 8 was developed by Roxio and is based on their previous product (DVD BUilder)

[Larry]

johnhanderson, on Feb 23 2006, 10:37 AM, said:

I understand that, but since they support it in MyDVD LE, why wouldn't they support it in EMC8 MyDVD?

That's a question you need to ask Dell or Sonic/Roxio. It is quite likely that the version of MyDVD LE you got from Dell was written specifically to work with that device only when distributed with the device from Dell.