Invalid Argument

roxylee wrote on 9/5/2009, 11:38 AM
Capturing Hi8 video thru a canapus firewire device onto my XP machine with 4GB ram & just over 1TB free hard drive space, I continue to get and error message which terminates my video capture. The message "An error occured while capturing from the device. An invalid argument was specified."

No further information is supplied or linked. This error has occured after 30 seconds, 2 1/2 minutes, 13 minutes and 17 minutes of capture, not in that order, but in random order. I can restart capture, but it simple occurs again. I have capture settings set at 4000 MB and 1 hour of time.

Is there a setting I'm missing causing this? I've gone back over the sections of the tape where the error occured and it will capture past those parts, so it doesn't seem related to a particular spot on the tape.

Roxylee

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amendegw wrote on 9/5/2009, 1:18 PM
Don't have an answer for you, but the Windows Event Viewer might give you some additional clues.

First, note the exact time the error occurs. Then right click on "My Computer". Select "Manage", then select the "Event Viewer". Search for your error in the "System" or "Application" Error Logs.



Double click on your error for more information.

Good Luck,
...Jerry

PS: This reminds me of the time, several years ago that I wrote a short program to help a co-worker with her daily work. One day it threw an "invalid argument" error. She came back to me explaining that "the computer is having an argument with itself" :)

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