Hi,

I have purchased 2 of the same usb video capture devices with the intent of getting 2 different video feeds in to the pc. Currently the software I am using to look at the feeds only sees a single device despite windows hardware manager seeing both. Not being a programming expert I am assuming that the problem here is the driver for the capture device? Has anyone any suggestion as to how I can get this to work or do I just buy 2 different capture devices with different drivers?

Use Nlite and integrate your drivers in the original windows.

Use Nlite and integrate your drivers in the original windows.

How is that supposed to help him with a device that is already functioning on an installed system????

Chances are the software either only handles one device, or for some strange reason sees them both as a the same device.

I tried contacting the manufacuter and they were not much help. The makers of the software I am using in which I am trying to see more that one vide feed also think that the restriction is Windows, for now I have two different usb to video digitizers by two different manufacturers and that works fine. As I need to see about 8 to 10 video feeds then it looks like I will need 8 to 10 different brands of adaptor. I would have lke to kept them all the same but if I can;t get two working under Windows then I doubt that I will have much chance wth 10!!

Maybe, just maybe, if the drivers are "monolithic" or however, even if multiple files, do not have "cross-references" between them, you could try renaming the driver(s) and create as much as modified .inf files as needed.

Say that you have a driver called videofed.sys and a videofed.inf file for it, you can try making a copy of both, then:

1) rename copy_of_videofed.sys to videofe1.sys

2) rename copy_of_videofed.inf to videofe1.inf

3) edit videofe1.inf replacing all occurencies of videofed.sys to videofe1.sys, edit also the description in [strings] section

Not easy, not necessarily working, but worth a shot.

An app to edit .inf files:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3960

(but you can use notepad allright)

Some info on .inf files:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1966

jaclaz