#MIRO DC1-TV
Frank,
I hope I understood your problem correctly, it may be three fold.
1. I also have the DC1 and to view the video on the computer monitor you will
need the miroVideo 20TD "live" video card installed. Otherwise the video will
skip frames.
2. The flicker is caused by improperly syncronized video signals from the VTR.
To eliminate the flicker you will need to insert a TBC (Time Base Corrector)
between the VTR and miroVideo DC1 board. There are other boards that do a
better job of video capture. One that we sell is the IBM Ultimedia II board
and bundle it with D/Touch Pro. It operates in DOS so there is less system
overhead. We sell TBC that will go into a 16 bit computer bus slot.
Also if you want to increase the resolution you will need to go with S-Video.
That will increase the horizontal resolution from 320 to 400 lines.
3. There is a problem with the hard drive. But it comes from the Pentium
system board. The bus speed is set at 33MHz and I know from experience this
has been a bottle neck on these computers. The way around it is to get a
caching controller for the Micropolis hard drive. Put at least one megabyte of
RAM on the controller board. Tekram makes one, we sell them for VLB bus.
There is also one from Adaptec I think. The computer system board with EISA
bus works better and have greater thoughput with the Micorpolis drives.
Sorry my father is not here to translate for you.
I hope they make drivers for OS/2 3.0 aka Warp. MS Windows in this DTV world
is a dog. (Dog is the US english slang word for too slow.)
But if you need anymore help you can write to Bill Kolstad, POB 291490, PHELAN,
CA 92329-1490 USA.