Got an HP Pavilion DV7-3080ca laptop, plenty of horsepower for my needs but I've just discovered that it can't capture properly (from my Canon HV20), regardless of whether I try capturing with Vegas or another program. Capturing DV results in lots of dropped frames (despite the 7200rpm hard drive), and capturing HDV fails altogether.
Dug around the 'net and there's speculation that the problem is the DV7's firewire port, possibly because it shares IRQ16 with several other ports or functions. One person said they even tried getting a firewire ExpressCard, but it didn't solve their problem because it too shares IRQ16.
I can capture perfectly with my old Dell Inspiron 9100, and even with an old Celeron eMachine for goodness sake - no dropped frames whatsoever.
Just wondering if anyone else has figured out a solution for the HP DV7 ... before I stop trying to capture with it.
(Please note the incredible restraint in the above post, no ranting about how or why anyone would bother offering a firewire port that doesn't actually work ... sigh ...)
Dug around the 'net and there's speculation that the problem is the DV7's firewire port, possibly because it shares IRQ16 with several other ports or functions. One person said they even tried getting a firewire ExpressCard, but it didn't solve their problem because it too shares IRQ16.
I can capture perfectly with my old Dell Inspiron 9100, and even with an old Celeron eMachine for goodness sake - no dropped frames whatsoever.
Just wondering if anyone else has figured out a solution for the HP DV7 ... before I stop trying to capture with it.
(Please note the incredible restraint in the above post, no ranting about how or why anyone would bother offering a firewire port that doesn't actually work ... sigh ...)