We are working on a new version of Vidcap that will
incorporate fixes for DX8/Pal DV. Microsoft has also been
promising a revised DX8 installer to handle this but it
hasn't showed up yet.

I'm hoping (not promising) our fix will be posted before
the end of January.

Chris L wrote:
>>After upgrading to Direct X 8, Vegas's external monitor
>>preview (DV over 1394) worked better.
>>
>>But when I came to print PAL DV to tape... frames would
>>jitter and sound had an echo effect.
>>
>>The main culprit seems to be the qdv.dll file (I managed
to
>>find several different versions of this DLL at
>>http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html which is also an
>>excellent resource for other DLLs, VXDs etc.)
>>
>>Rather than tinker too much I decided to see if I could
>>just uninstall DirectX 8, I found a utility to do this at
>>http://www.ebrink.com/dxun/Direct.htm
>>the utilitly worked brilliantly and I've since gone back
to
>>DX7, but my external monitor function is dodgy.
>>
>>Hope this info is of help to someone.
>>
>>To save me trying every one... Can anyone recommend the
>>best version/subversion of Direct X to use with PAL DV
and
>>Vegas Video?
>>