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The Good: Out of the box and hooked up all of the peripherals. I apparently lost my disc for my scanner but found the driver on the HP website and it now works fine. Virus program installed. So far, so good.
I was concerned about installing EMC 9 over the top of the Roxio Creator DE 10-2 cheapy program Dell installed. I did as Big Dave suggested and created a System Restore point prior to the install. I did not uninstall the OEM program. Install went well. Part way through it stopped and wanted to uninstall a version of Roxio Express Labeler and replace it with another version. That went OK. Later it stopped again and wanted to uninstall a version of Roxio Update Manager which also went OK. Everything I have tried so far has went well except for a problem with Easy Audio Capture. I get much of my music for my movies from the Rhapsody website. the Input box in Easy Audio Capture is greyed out and does not have any selections of any kind. Normally there would be several selections in this box. On my old computer with a Soundblaster card this was Wave Out Mix. I downloaded the Audacity program and tried downloading a song on that program with the same results. No capture. Strange though is that with Easy Audo Capture I can play a song through my speakers from Rhapsody and hold my microphone up next to the speakers and it will capture. Problem is that there is some loss of sound quality. This scenario would seem to suggest a problem with the soundcard in my new computer. The card is Realtek High Defination Audio, Driver version 5.10.0.5408. This is a problem I need help with if anyone has any ideas. There is a Soundcard troubleshooter on my machine which I ran and it said there was not a problem with the card.
...and for all you naysayers that thought I would never get the message. I made my first movie using Video Wave and exporting to My DVD. What can I say except that with much humility you were all correct. So this one is for Brendon, sknis and myguggi and all the rest of you gurus that answer all my dumb questions. Which brings up the next question for myguggi. On your last post to me you prefaced it with BTW. Now I'm not sure I even want to know what that means but lay it on me.
I also made my first 16x9 movie. This was a selection in Video Wave that I don't think is even in My DVD. On the new widescreen TV's the picture is great and does away with making everone fat and squatty. It looks like 4x3 is going to be on it's way out.
...and finally a thank you to all who have helped me out with my questions and if any have suggestions on my audio capture problems please let me know.
See if there are updated drivers for that computer especially the audio chip. Some chips allow you to capture but not to hear what you are capturing. Have you checked Windows XP recording setting to see if cpture is enabled?
