[Elecraft] SVGA capture

[Jim Miller]

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 <jim at jtmiller.com> 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
>