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Jim AB3CV

SVGA capture

A little victory here for me. Finally downloaded a new driver for my
Startech USB3 video capture box and also a new version of VLC media player
(free, open source, donation would be nice...)

After installing the driver I fired up VLC, opened the media menu, opened
capture device and selected DirectShow.

P3 SVGA came up instantly in a resizable window nice and clean. I'm just
using a NUC i5, Win10 and it's consuming about 5% CPU time which is very
reasonable.

For extra points I modified the properties of the desktop shortcut for VLC
putting "dshow://" after the program invocation which was already in
quotes. Include the quotes in the dshow portion.

Clicking on the link now goes directly to showing the SVGA stream.

I'll do some further testing to see if anything weird crops up when running
N1MM+ and sending CW, etc., but looks good so far!

woo hoo!!

73

jim ab3cv
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Jim AB3CV

Re: SVGA capture

Smooth CW even at 40wpm. No hiccups noted. I'll use this in RTTY Roundup
and NAQP in January and report back.

73 MCHNY!

jim

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Jim Miller <[hidden email]> wrote:

> A little victory here for me. Finally downloaded a new driver for my
> Startech USB3 video capture box and also a new version of VLC media player
> (free, open source, donation would be nice...)
>
> After installing the driver I fired up VLC, opened the media menu, opened
> capture device and selected DirectShow.
>
> P3 SVGA came up instantly in a resizable window nice and clean. I'm just
> using a NUC i5, Win10 and it's consuming about 5% CPU time which is very
> reasonable.
>
> For extra points I modified the properties of the desktop shortcut for VLC
> putting "dshow://" after the program invocation which was already in
> quotes. Include the quotes in the dshow portion.
>
> Clicking on the link now goes directly to showing the SVGA stream.
>
> I'll do some further testing to see if anything weird crops up when
> running N1MM+ and sending CW, etc., but looks good so far!
>
> woo hoo!!
>
> 73
>
> jim ab3cv
>

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ng7m

Re: SVGA capture

In reply to this post by Jim AB3CV

Jim, you should try the DirectShow feed with Win4K3Suite, I don't have a
P3, but I know it supports a couple of different VGA capture devices and
I'm pretty sure it's using a DirectShow feed. There is a trial of
Win4K3Suite, you should give it a try. Then you have an integrated setup
for your K3 and you won't need to use VLC. It's worth a try, maybe Tom the
author of Win4K3Suite will chime in.

Max NG7M

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Jim Miller <[hidden email]> wrote:

> A little victory here for me. Finally downloaded a new driver for my
> Startech USB3 video capture box and also a new version of VLC media player
> (free, open source, donation would be nice...)
>
> After installing the driver I fired up VLC, opened the media menu, opened
> capture device and selected DirectShow.
>
> P3 SVGA came up instantly in a resizable window nice and clean. I'm just
> using a NUC i5, Win10 and it's consuming about 5% CPU time which is very
> reasonable.
>
> For extra points I modified the properties of the desktop shortcut for VLC
> putting "dshow://" after the program invocation which was already in
> quotes. Include the quotes in the dshow portion.
>
> Clicking on the link now goes directly to showing the SVGA stream.
>
> I'll do some further testing to see if anything weird crops up when running
> N1MM+ and sending CW, etc., but looks good so far!
>
> woo hoo!!
>
> 73
>
> jim ab3cv
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Jim Miller

Re: SVGA capture

Hi George

Tried it and it worked fine.

73

Jim ab3cv

On Dec 24, 2017, at 11:09 PM, M. George <[hidden email]> wrote:

Jim, you should try the DirectShow feed with Win4K3Suite, I don't have a P3, but I know it supports a couple of different VGA capture devices and I'm pretty sure it's using a DirectShow feed. There is a trial of Win4K3Suite, you should give it a try. Then you have an integrated setup for your K3 and you won't need to use VLC. It's worth a try, maybe Tom the author of Win4K3Suite will chime in.

Max NG7M

> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Jim Miller <[hidden email]> wrote:
> A little victory here for me. Finally downloaded a new driver for my
> Startech USB3 video capture box and also a new version of VLC media player
> (free, open source, donation would be nice...)
>
> After installing the driver I fired up VLC, opened the media menu, opened
> capture device and selected DirectShow.
>
> P3 SVGA came up instantly in a resizable window nice and clean. I'm just
> using a NUC i5, Win10 and it's consuming about 5% CPU time which is very
> reasonable.
>
> For extra points I modified the properties of the desktop shortcut for VLC
> putting "dshow://" after the program invocation which was already in
> quotes. Include the quotes in the dshow portion.
>
> Clicking on the link now goes directly to showing the SVGA stream.
>
> I'll do some further testing to see if anything weird crops up when running
> N1MM+ and sending CW, etc., but looks good so far!
>
> woo hoo!!
>
> 73
>
> jim ab3cv
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