I have installed a Lifeview TV capture card for a client but cannot get the picture size to fill the screen without affecting the resolution of the pic.
Max achievable size without affecting = approx 10x13 cm on a 17" monitor.
must I change some screen settings or the VGA card??? Current = 4Meg
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My pinnicale system t.v. capture card (installed 2 nights ago on my athlon600) has a setting next to the screen size setting, think it says affect, where I can pick standard ratio, wide screen ratio, or I can manually adjust the ratio by dragging the sides around. When it is set on standard, and I click on corner to make it bigger, it makes it proportional. Now, my ATI all in wonder card in my Athlon 500 system has been installed for about a month, maybe longer, and I haven't looked for that setting on it, so I am not sure that it exists. I do know it warps the view if I drag the sides or the corner to expand size, but if I pick size of say 640x480, it is proportional.

Also, the pinnacle card required a different driver for my diamond viper 770 32 meg agp video card, because I am running windows Me, and when I installed Me it used windows default driver, but when I reloaded the driver from the manufacturer cd, it worked fine (that was just choppy tv watching.

As for those people who are thinking about a T.V. capture card, I bought my pinnacle card for 29.99 on www.ubid.com, (http://www.ubid.com,) and got it in a week (I had to use an auction, and with shipping it was 39.96, and I knwo it would cost much more to ship overseas and stuff). But, it is sweet watching T.V. on my 19 inch monitor...

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Joe Redd
MCP

What is your screen resolution. Your video tuner may only be capable of displaying a 640 x 480 image. If your computer's video display is set for higher resolution, the tuner video will not fill the screen.