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IVC-8371P
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Appendix B FAQ
1.
What kind of compression solution does IVC-8371P use? What is the
minimum hardware requirements for using IVC-8371P?
IVC-8371P is an MPEG-4 hardware video and audio encoding/Decode card. The
dedicated hardware chip on the card encodes video stream as PS or AVI file formats, and
decodes only
PS file by hardware chip. Decoding AVI file needs to be performed by
software via CPU resource. Usually, decoding 4 video channels of AVI file with full D1
resolution (720 x 480) needs Pentium 4 3.0G or faster CPU to achieve real-time decoding
performance.
2.
Can IVC-8371P card driver be upgraded directly after first installation?
No. To upgrade or re-install IVC-8371P device driver, or to add more IVC-8371P card into
the system, you have to remove the existing IVC-8371P device driver and reboot the
system. Then plug the new card to the system, or install the undated device driver directly.
3.
When using Windows device manager to remove single card, the system
reboots automatically. How can this problem be solved?
Do not disable or uninstall single IVC-8371P capture device by Windows device manager;
otherwise the system will reboot automatically whenever you try to enable or install the
driver again. This is an OS issue, and will be solved in Windows XP Service Pack 2, or
later editions.
4.
Why IVC-8371P cannot work properly on some on-board VGA cards? How
can this be solved?
Display of video for four or more channels costs lots of system and display card resources
that some on-board VGA cards cannot handle well. Below is a list of VGA card drivers
verified by IEI. You can refer to the list for consideration of types of VGA card to use with
IVC-8371P.
Windows 2000 + SP4 for an Intel 865G based VGA card:
VGA driver version 6.14.10.3943, 6.14.10.3619 works fine.