If you bought an EasyCap and it’s crashing your system, do yourself a favor: try it without the extension cord that it came with. Does it work now?. What did we learn today? — to use properly shielded usb 2.0 cables and not the unshielded crap they give you with most cheap devices.
By the way, in your drivers cd look for StkATVAp.exe — and several other bundled tools, they’re handy for troubleshooting and testing your setup. No need to install Ulead Video Studio either, since you can use VLC or even Windows Movie Maker to capture a live stream.
Now you won’t be calling it easycrap anymore!
You’re welcome.
if you have green/magenta artifacts just reinstall the drivers without the easycap connected. works a charm
Yep. This only happened once to me though. But the clear winner was the usb cord, who knew!
My comp says that the USB port are not fast enough how can I change this problem pls help
Have you tried using the USB on the motherboard? sometimes the extended ones (by the side of your CPU if it’s a desktop) are not 2.0+ Specially if it’s an older PC or you haven’t got the drivers installed, I’ve had some issues with VIA chipsets in the past regarding this problem.
If you’re on Windows, I recommend you go to Device Manager and look under “Universal Serial Bus Controllers” If you can find the word “Enhanced” or anything related to 2.0+ then you ought to have the drivers already installed and all you have to do is find the right port. To go to Device Manager on XP you can go to System Properties (win key + pause/break key) -> Hardware -> Device manager. Or just Start -> Run -> devmgmt.msc
Once you find the port/s I recommend you get a powered hub and that you use one of those ports to communicate with the hub devices.
If there’s no “Enhanced” USB Controller, you may still have one but the drivers are not installed (again, older motherboards specially with VIA, etc. you have to install them yourself, refer to the manual for more information).
And of course, don’t use the USB cord provided with the device, it’s only usable with laptops and only if you’re lucky (they’re low quality, unshielded cables — not USB compliant)
I ran into this issue too, it had me scratching my head for a few minutes.
Note that unshielded cables can be USB 2.0 compliant (but not USB 3).
This cheap cable is almost certainly not compliant; there is a T in UTP.
Hey, im using my easyCap without the cord and it still causes this, any help? (i assume its a bsod as it just flashes blue with some text for about half a second then reboots)
It would be good to know what type of error code you’re getting. I suggest removing the drivers and trying a clean install (remove as many variables as possible) — There are some other driver versions out there you can try. Make sure your OS is actually supported as well. Try it in another PC, if you can’t get it to work demand a refund or replacement under warranty if any.
yea, dould you link me to some drivers that work cause i guess its them x3 it worked fine on the drivers i use to use its just they where taken off the site as it closed down. tryed some new ones, they dont work
im using windows xp Pro 32bit
These are the ones I use http://gushh.net/tmp/easycap_driver.zip — Just make a clean install, rule out a hardware issue by installing it somewhere else and get rid of the cable. Good luck!