Capture
version 0.8.16 (April 11th, 2003)
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introduction.
With Capture you are able to record the input of your BeOS-enabled TV receiver card to disk.
Depending on the performance of your computer only, you may freely choose between all video and audio encoders installed on your system. While recording, you can follow the video in a window.
Furthermore, the recorded audio signal can be resampled to different frequencies or just the mono signal.

If you have any questions regarding the full version, have some ideas, problems, or just found a bug (or more bugs), please let me know.

known issues.
This is a beta release, and by no means a finished product; there are many things left to do! I just think it might already be useful for you. Also, there is no additional documentation to this "Read Me".
The video window is not correctly updated in the YCbCr411 mode - and it's way too CPU hungry in the YCbCr422 mode (the current routine is directly borrowed from stampTV and wasn't used in a time critical environment, and thus, is not at all optimized) - in any way, it is correctly recorded to disk, though.
If the video track cannot be created, this is normally caused by wrong settings for the codec; e.g. the DivX encoder only accepts RGB32 modes. In the final version you will see which settings an encoder accepts, and which not.
When recording, you might experience weird behaviour of the dropped frames counter.
Timer events aren't yet saved, and also not every mode might work that well (largely untested). Be sure to disable/enable the timer after any changes for now.

disclaimer.
This product is copyrighted ©2001-2003 by pinc Software. All Rights Reserved.
You may freely use this product as is. However, no warranty is given on the functionality. In no event shall the author be liable for any damages it caused.
This product is distributed as shareware: if you are using it after a short trial period (21 days), you have to register. Since it's currently not possible to register (hey, the program is still beta), the trial period will be as long as I need to release the first final version.

author.
This program was written by Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>.
visit: www.pinc-software.de

history.
version 0.6.0 (2.7.2001)
	- initial free beta release

version 0.6.3 (4.7.2001)
	- changing the video size resized the video window one pixel too large
	- connecting to the video producer is much faster now
	- uses now the internal ring buffer implementation, because the BBufferGroup
		isn't used from the MediaKit if it has more than 3 buffers...
	-the video size menu in the format window now knows the target video window
		from the beginning
	-frame rate setting is now enabled and working

version 0.7.11 (29.7.2001)
	- included the Bt848's PAL-M bug work-around from Bruno G. Albuquerque and
		the S-VHS bug work-around provided by Stephan Aßmus
	- complete rearrangement of the interface (timer configuration is not yet functional)
	- you can now choose among user-defined format settings
	- many other changes

version 0.8.16 (11.4.2003)
	- vastly extended version
	- timer does now work
	- rearranged format handling
	- now updates the video input in all color modes (but not always perfectly,
	  see known issues).
	- many, many other things