ADVC 100 & Vidcap

doboyd wrote on 10/30/2002, 6:11 AM
I have an annoying problem with capturing that I do not know is normal with the ADVC 100. I'm using Win XP pro,A7M266 with 768M DDR 2100 ram & a AMD 2000XP cpu, 80G Seagate 100ATA 7200 HDD for capturing. When using vidcap, its like something is going on in the background, clicking on the controls or resizing the preview takes about 2 seconds before the action starts. It doesn't lock up, just acts like its busy, captures fine, but everything happens with a lag. I'm using a Creative Audigy DE sound card with a 1394 port. Vidcap does not do this with My JVC DV camera, and using MS Moviemaker to capture through the ADVC 100 is OK, as is IuVCR, & Scenelizer trial.

Another problem using the ADVC 100 is that there is no video previewed in vidcap until I press the play button, is this normal? Sometimes there is no preview until I resize the preview window by dragging the frame up or down, then I get video in the preview, this also happens with my DV camera, so I don't know why this is either. In both cases it always captures perfectly.

I have no problems with dropped frames or anything else, and I checked my IRQ's, the Audigy card shares IRQ 9 with my video card, NIC, ACPI, & USB controller(on board). I tried manually changing them in the BIOS, but Windows must override this??

Any suggestions are welcome, I don't have another firewire card to test, and the camera preview video problem sort of precludes this, but I'll listen to anything.

Thanks

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 10/30/2002, 8:30 AM
Audigy cards are pretty versatile, but they are a wierd beast, especially once you install all the creative stuff. Check network and dial up connections- is there a network bridging listing? If so, try turning that off.
doboyd wrote on 10/30/2002, 5:25 PM
I have only installed the drivers, no Creative applications. Under network connections in XP I have a ICS dial up, LAN (home network, only 2 PC's) and a 1394 Hi speed connection (the Audigy can network via 1394). I tried disabling the 1394 connection, but it made no difference. I could see no bridging connections active, and XP says you can only bridge two or more connections not being used by ICS etc.I will get another firewire card to try (beg, borrow or buy).

I don't understand why only vidcap has this problem??, no other capture app?? What does Vidcap use that the others don't use. I have no other video editing software installed, except trial versions of Ulead DVD Movie factory and Workshop, I loaded a ghost image I had of only Vegas and XP, no other video apps, and it is still the same. I do have a Main Concept DV codec installed to work with TMPG etc.

I will try removing the Audigy and use just a firewire card, and see what happens, unless anyone has any experience with Vegas vidcap and audigy 1394 cards??

Thanks.
Ron Lucas wrote on 10/31/2002, 8:26 AM
I had a simliar problem with the repsonsiveness of VV capture. While it was connected to my camera, navigating withing the capture utility was very sluggish click something then wait a second before it happens. In my case, I would drop frames once in a while - say 30 in one hour.

I read about some people disabling their network configuration before capturing then enabling it after capture was done. Now, when I disable my network connection, VV capture is very responsive and I get 0 dropped frames!

Not sure why this happens. I didn't check IRQs or anything like I should, but now it works great for me.

Ron
doboyd wrote on 10/31/2002, 4:24 PM
Ron,

Thanks for the tip, I tried it and it improved the responsiveness, but still a bit sluggish. I also don't rememeber it doing it with my camera, only when using the ADVC100, or using my camera through the ADVC100, also I do not drop any frames.
I will still try another firewire card, and I do remember a problem with TI chipsets on Firewire cards and Canopus ADVC100, but I don't know what the problem was, or even if the Audigy has a TI chip set.

Paul