ok... and now the real good news. It works. without any problems. Even recording/timeshifting is fine.
The problem was a setting in DivXG400 ('Load filter=force', changed that to '=Only if necessary').
I need this filter to overcome a hardware limitation of my Matrox G400 card. It can only make use of its hardware overlay for video sizes multiple of 16. DivXG400 is available from
http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/The strange thing is that I didn't change that setting since quite some time.... and MC worked even with it a few builds ago)
As for capturing resolutions with more than 288 lines (for PAL), this is a hardware limitation of all 878/848 based cards. A driver can emulate preview pins even on higher resoultions, but some just don't do it. Using the generic bt8x8 driver from
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ solves this problem. I've been using this since last summer for stability reasons (Hauppauge's were just horrible) and recommend them for everyone with a bt8x8 based card.
Thanks for your help and patience,
Ingo
p.s.: are you going to add 25fps presets for us PAL users?
p.p.s.: two features I'd like see for 9.1:
- audio compression (using lame acm)
- support for multiple audio streams in avi files (like morgan stream switcher)
p.p.p.s.: maybe you should add a list of installed DirectShow filters to 'System Info'