October 25th, 1999

[3:30 PM] Digital Video Utility Receives Maintenance Release Ben Bird has updated the video capture/play utility, BTV, to version 3.2.3. The new version includes some minor bug fixes and stability improvements. According to Mr. Bird: BTV is the essential software for anyone with video input hardware. It allows you to easily view video from any video digitizing source, either full screen or in a window. It has been successfully tested with a number of video sources including various video input cards, TV cards, built-in video hardware, USB and FireWire video sources. BTV 3.2.3 has a number of improvements over version 3.2.2: Added option to choose destination of pict files Added option to choose between numeric or date stamped naming of movie and pict files Added option to disable sound Fixed bug which caused sound volume to be set to zero on quit Fixed bug causing crash when changing the colour depth in the prefs when in window mode Fixed bug causing crash on quit Misc minor bug fixes BTV is available as shareware for US$15. You can find more information at the BTV web site. As of this writing, we were unable to pull up the BTV web site. BTV