Re: Help with Video Overlay Card??

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <3419E473.7B015402@magna.com.au>,
Dave Morrison  <deth@magna.com.au> wrote:
>I'm trying to get this Apple ][ video overlay card working that I
>picked up the other day.
>
>Outputting from the gs to the video recorder/TV is great. Works
>perfectly. The problem is the video coming back into the gs.
>
>What I get is the image from the video popping up on the gs screen for
>a fraction of a second, disappears for a couple of seconds, then pops
>up on the screen again, disappears and so forth.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem may be?? Thanks for any
>help :-)

My first guess is that your video source has macrovision copy protection.
That's the behavior you get when you try to run video between VCRs while
playing a protected tape. My VOCs have never done anything of the sort at
any other time.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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