Problem with VLC and Pinnacle 500

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Hi all,

For some time I’ve been using VLC in conjunction with a Pinnacle 500-USB attached to my PVR to take snapshots of film and TV credits (it’s not as nerdy as it sounds, it’s to do with my job!). Everything was going fine until yesterday when my computer crashed and I had to start from scratch, reinstalling Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Now whenever I try to open the capture device, nothing happens. VLC shows a digital clock at the bottom left which seems to working but there’s no picture at all.

When I go to configure the Pinnacle and look in the Video Decoder tab, it says “Signal Detected: 1” and “Lines Detected: 625” (I’m using Pal_B as the video standard). Also when Windows boots up it says that the Pinnacle is attached to a USB 1.1 port, a warning I never used to get and I’m sure that my system came with USB 2.0.

Anyone got any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Many thanks in advance!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Maybe you should reinstall your chipset drivers.

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Thanks, I'll give that a try!