Can't Capture...Soundblaster to blame?

Diesel19 wrote on 12/10/2003, 1:05 AM
Hi. I am not able to get Vegas to recognize my Camcorder. Everything worked fine on my old cpu but on my new cpu running Win XP it won't detect my cam. When trying to capture, if I highligh the video tab at the top nothing happens, no drop box comes down, sometimes it won't even highlight the Video....if I highlight the Audio it says SB Audigy. What the heck is going on.

The Firewire port that comes on the Soundblaster Audigy 2 card is what i'm connecting my Cam to.....I have uninstalled and reinstalled vegas numerous times but the same thing always happens, I can't get the video tab at the top to do anything. I can't capture using windows movie maker or any other program either. There is nothing wrong with my copy of vegas because it works fine on my other CPU, where it will say "no device detected" under Video.

I have read some things about people having trouble with the firewire port on the Soundblaster 2 card. I tried installing an Adaptec Firewire card in my cpu and basically my system rejected it, giving me a "code 10" error. It showed up in Device Manager but with a yellow flag on it, saying it couldn't be installed properly.

I also have a external Hard Drive that can connect via USB or Firewire. I tried connecting it with Firewire to the SB port and my CPU didn't do anything, so I connected it via USB. I connected my cam to the firewire port on the external hard drive and still can't get Vegas to detect cam, same thing happens with the video tab. Off topic, can your CPU have two different 1394 cards installed and working? Anyhoo

Is there anything in services.msc that has anything to do with this? or MsConfig? Any processes? Any known program issues? Anything anyone knows about? I need some help.

I am thinking about reinstalling Win XP Pro. I HAVE to get Vegas working, and working soon. Last option is to reformat.

Thanks.

Comments

jboy wrote on 12/10/2003, 11:12 AM
Why not try uninstalling and removing the Audigy, then installing the Adaptec card ? If it works, then reinstall the Audigy..worth a try, and it may work.
kameronj wrote on 12/10/2003, 11:24 AM
I'm not sure why you are so dead set on this being a software issue that you would uninstall and reinstall Vegas a number of times (and would want to go so far as to reformat your drive).

What type of hardware setup did you have on you "old" system? Did you have the firewire port on your audio card? Did you even have the SB Audigy on your old system?

Do you still have your old system?

Make your new system look like your old system (from a Hardware point of view)....then go from there.
Rogueone wrote on 12/10/2003, 1:14 PM
How about the latest drivers from Creative? I have a Audigy 2 Platinum, and my firewire ports work fine. Try updating the Audigy drivers if you haven't already done so.

Rogue One
Diesel19 wrote on 12/10/2003, 2:24 PM
My Audigy drivers are all updated. My other CPU is an old crappy system with Windows ME on it. I took the firewire port out of that one and put it into my new cpu, and that was the one that was rejected as I was talking about.

But regardless, what is the deal with the video tab when i'm trying to capture. Sometimes it like messes up ALL the tabs at the top when I try to click on it, a second "options" tab will appear, I can't click on it but it appears. Everything goes screwy when I click the Video tab.

My CPU:

Alienware
Pentium 4 3.2GHz
WD 250 GB HD
2.0 GB of Ram
Soundblaster Audigy 2
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

I am a heavy gamer and I configured my CPU based off Black Vipers webpage about Windows XP services. My cpu has been working great but this is all I can think of at this point, that's why I was going to consider reinstalling the OS, and if that didn't work, reformat.

Oh by the way, when I first got my new system, I was able to capture video through my external hard drive that I was talking about. That's why I would consider reformatting. Obviously something has happened to cause this, I just can't think of what.

I also run Spybot and Adaware on a Nightly Basis, and I check for viruses with Norton 2003 once a week.

I am completely stumped at this point.

????
frogmugsy wrote on 12/10/2003, 3:19 PM
I recently ran into trouble when my hard drive failed. I reinstalled w2k and without realizing it, it installed the Texas Instrument ohci 1394 compliant driver to my firewire card. Vegas wouldn't capture anything or even notice I had my sony d8 hooked up to it. I changed the firewire driver to a regular ohci compliant driver (without the TI) and Vegas was capturing minutes later. Sorry, I have the habit of dragging this out. Maybe just try changing the driver from TI to compliant or vice versa.
Diesel19 wrote on 12/11/2003, 1:19 PM
How do I do that, or check it?
frogmugsy wrote on 12/11/2003, 6:14 PM
Im using w2k so I don't know about the other OS's, but this is what I did.

Goto Control Panel, System, Device Manager, click on the plus sign on your IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller and then riight click on your controller (it will be either Texas Instrument or OHCI) goto Properties, Click on Driver tab, Update Driver, Next, click on Display a knwn list of the drivers etc... , Next, and then click on the one that's the opposite of what you were using. And then so on, restart. I guess you could try that with the sound card firewire and the other one from the old computer you were trying to install. When I changed that driver, my computer finally recognized my sony D8 and then I was given a choice of drivers for that, I thinkk they were DVcam and Microsoft VCR-DV. I chose the Microsoft vcr-dv.

It's been running fine since so hopefully this is the case with yours.
Diesel19 wrote on 12/12/2003, 7:16 PM
I reinstalled Windows XP and now i'm able to capture footage through the firewire port via Sounblaster Card....

????

Weird.