Now Available: ErgVideo Coach!
Try our new ErgVideo Coach tool for creating ErgVideo Training Plans for
yourself, your athletes, or your multirider studio. This tool can't make you a
great coach, but it will let you apply your expertise in developing and
distributing complete ErgVideo plans to your athletes. This is an excellent
opportunity for you to enhance your coaching service offerings, widen your
reach, and keep your clients motivated and excited about their indoor training
sessions. You provide the training expertise, we supply the ErgVideos direct to
athletes and provide them with technical support. Contact us and we'll help
promote your service at our website and in periodic mailings.
Check our "how to" video on
using ErgVideo Coach. You must be an ErgVideo licensee to download, use any
one of your ErgVideo Serial Numbers in the boxes below.
Updates: Version 1.0.2 adds functionality for a date non-specific output list to
support a "My Favorite rides" listing. Also fixed copy and paste behavior.
New Version Download for ErgVideoPlayer
The current version of the ErgVideoPlayer is 2.1.8. This version compatible with
MR2009beta release and Windows 7 RC1 build 7100+ (not the beta!)
Changes 2.1.5 to 2.1.8 here
Did you click it? Did you read it? All of it? Good. Now enter the Serial Number
of any ErgVideo you own, and your e-mail address. Upon validation, a download
button will appear. We recommend you save the file to your hard disk, and then
double click the file to install. If you have ErgVideo running you must
terminate it before installing a new version.
Please use Internet Explorer 7 or 8, or Google Chrome for downloads, or
Firefox 2.x. Firefox 3.x has a major FAIL which causes downloads to fail.
Here is
a write-up and how to fix it on your system.
How to find your serial number: It's on DVD packaging similar to the diagram at
left.
If you use CompCS ("Coaching Software") when running ErgVideo, you MUST, without
exception, use CompCS version 1.6 or higher. ErgVideo 2 uses functionality
present in CompCS 1.6 which is not present in earlier versions, and older
versions of CompCS are NOT SUPPORTED. The latest CompCS is available from
Racermate here.
Velotron CS Beta (1.6) is required by Velotron users. Multirider 3 or
Multirider 2009 is required by MultiRider configurations.
USB-Serial port adapters:
ErgVideo 2 uses new functionality which may expose an bug in the Prolific
USB-Serial adapter drivers. If you have an adapter which uses Prolific drivers
(this includes the common Sewell cable) you need to install a working
driver. It's really worthwhile, since it will make all of your
RacerMate software run much more smoothly and trouble free. Perhaps you have had
an intermittent error that happens rarely?
This is a common manifestation of the problem we are talking about, and
it has nothing to do with the quality of the RacerMate software, which is mature
and robust. It happens equally on XP and Vista!
We strongly recommend direct 9-pin serial port connection or FTDI-based
USB-serial adapters (such
as available here or direct from
Racermate as a CT specific
part here). Unlike Prolific,
FTDIchip is providing excellent drivers for all Windows versions
including 64-bit systems (Vista and XP) and they seem better positioned to
support cable manufacturers in the future.
If you stick with the Sewell/Prolific cables, for Windows XP, we recommend you
try the
Prolific drivers
here, See "Install USB-Serial Drivers" on the Support
page.
Likewise for Windows Vista,
RacerMate's Website recommends excellent working Prolific/Sewell drivers
which can be installed on Vista to work with your Sewell cable. For video
instructions on how to get this done, see "Install USB-Serial Drivers" on the
Support page. Your best bet, however, is an FTDI
device.
Update from RacerMate:
RacerMate now has a
custom FTDI-based USB adapter. It ships standard with all RacerMate trainers
as of Jan. 2009. Though it also appears Prolific has expanded their driver
library to Vista 64 and Windows 7, after many years of disappointing performance
from Prolific/Sewell, we cannot vouch for the quality or efficacy of these new
drivers. Please consult with RacerMate about this and their new FTDI USB adapter
if in doubt what direction to take.
Version 2.1.8 is proven by ErgVideo Inc. to operate with Multirider III, MR2009
beta, and CompCS 1.6, Velotron CS Beta (1.6) most recent versions, installed as
above.