DirectX 9.x?

gogiants wrote on 9/3/2003, 9:47 PM
I saw a posting a while back that made brief mention of installing DirectX 9.x to ensure better luck with capturing video.

Can anyone confirm or deny whether this would be a positive influence? A neutral influence?

I have Movie Studio 3.0, and I'm running on a 1.9 Ghz CPU machine with 1 gig of memory, with everything extraneous shut down via EndItAll. I'm seeing the same sort of capture issues I saw with VideoFactory 2.0 on a much less powerful machine. (Capture will run for a while, then I stop it and it says "No video captured"; lots of dropped frames; issues with interacting with my Firewire drive, etc.)

I've worked around this by doing capture with a freebie copy of ULEAD that I got with my FireWire card, so I'm not looking to spend a lot of time diagnosing capture. But, I was curious enough to ask.

Thanks.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/4/2003, 6:45 AM
I don’t think DirectX 9.x has anything to do with improving capture.

Are you sure your firewire card is OHCI-compliant IEEE-1394? The reason I ask is because some older ones are not, and perhaps this one only works with the Ulead software. I’m guessing here but I know Pinnacle Systems use to make a firewire card that wasn’t OHCI-compliant and only worked with their Studio software. It just seems odd that Ulead VideoStudio works VideoFactory doesn’t.

~jr