More Print to Tape issues

timwalters wrote on 4/1/2002, 9:14 PM

HI:
98se, 1gig ram, wd 120gb, ibm80gb, 60gb boot al 7200 ultra ata
cam: sony trv 520
1394: pinnacle

NOw that that's out of the way, Ive successfully captured, edited and rendered files (maintaining format).

I cannot, however, preview or print to tape from from either the timeline nor in Video Capture. The ensuing freeze (upon clicking the record buttons) is catastrophic, complete with immovable pointer and Ctrl-alt-delete disabled.

I've tried rolling tape first too. To no avail.

Any suggestions?
I've tried different cards, reinstalling drivers, checked the device manager for the suggested compliances; all of that looks as has been advised by all the latest docs.

Thank you fellow trouble shooters.

Tim

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deef wrote on 4/1/2002, 10:44 PM

Is this Pinnacle card OHCI compliant? I've used a DV300 card before and it's OHCI compliant'ish in that capturing is ok with it, but preview/print to the device will hang/crash.

In Video Capture, the device should show up as "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR" on the Video menu.

timwalters wrote on 4/1/2002, 11:51 PM

The card is compliant. I've tried the SF recommended WD card too.

What card do you use?

Yes, in Video Capture, the device shows up as "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR" on the Video menu.

Any other suggestions?

SonyEPM wrote on 4/2/2002, 8:04 AM

can you capture video and print the just-captured clips back to tape?

timwalters wrote on 4/2/2002, 8:54 AM

Tried that too; I also thought it might be a rendered to wrong format.

I cant preview on machine, print from timeline or use it as an ent. mon. either. Same crash.

I'm guessing now that it may be an irq problem; but don't know how to fix it. Firewire pci and nvidia geforce 32 are both on same irq 11, windows won't let me change. Tried changing slots manually but it always stuck it on 11.

IRQ 11 CMI8738/C3DX PCI MPU-401
IRQ 11 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
IRQ 11 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
IRQ 11 Tekram DC-395U/UW/F or DC-315/U PCI SCSI Adapter
IRQ 11 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
IRQ 11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering

The computer says there are "no conficts"

I'm down to that and broken camera for troubleshooting. Going to borrow a different camera today. Still can't figure why I can capture flawlessyly but can't print back an even unmodified file.

How ought my hard drives be configured? Sharing screw it up? DMA? Read write behind caching? How ought be and how to set these things?

Very much thanks already for the advice.

biju wrote on 4/2/2002, 8:55 AM

Is it pinnacle Studio DV

ronaldf wrote on 4/2/2002, 9:45 AM

I have used the StudioDV card successfuly. It looks like you are having an IRQ conflict. The Video card, Sound card, SCSI card, and 1394 card all using the same IRQ is going to cause problems. Try setting up a different hardware profile(Editing). Start with only the video card. Then add the 1394. Make sure you leave the first slot next to the agp slot empty. The video and 1394 should come up with different IRQ's. Then add the sound card. Try capturing and print to tape after each addition. If successful don't add any more equipment that is not absolutely needed for editing. Good Luck!

deef wrote on 4/2/2002, 10:40 AM

This may or may not be the issue.

To redistribute the IRQs, you need to disable ACPI on the system. This can be done in Device Manager by choosing to update the Computer driver. You should choose to install from a specific location, and then choose don't search. You should be able to set it to Standard PC. It when then force a couple reboots while it distributes the IRQs.

Are you using a SCSI controller, too?

You might also try making sure the display adapter has bus mastering turned off.

timwalters wrote on 4/2/2002, 11:24 AM

Hey Deef:

you wrote:

"To redistribute the IRQs, you need to disable ACPI on the system. This can be done in Device Manager by choosing to update the Computer driver. You should choose to install from a specific location, and then choose don't search. You should be able to set it to Standard PC. It when then force a couple reboots while it distributes the IRQs."

What?!!? Could you explain - give more detials. I don't understand that at all. How do i choose to update "the computer driver". Which driver exactly? Update from what? What update?

Are you using a SCSI controller, too?
I was. but I deinstalled to no avail.

"You might also try making sure the display adapter has bus mastering turned off"

Don't see that option anwhere under device manager.

I'm still perplexed as to why I can control and capture but not print to.
Any other possibilites?

timwalters wrote on 4/2/2002, 11:27 AM

there is no sound "card".
it's built in to the soyo board.

ronaldf wrote on 4/2/2002, 3:56 PM

You should be able to disable it in CMOS setup or with a jumper. What motherboard are you using? Which chipset does it use?

Control_Z wrote on 4/3/2002, 6:32 PM

Be prepared to format and reinstall the OS if you try this. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Didn't for me the one time I tried it. And worse, after a clean install as a 'Standard PC' with unshared IRQs I still had the same trouble *and* the computer wouldn't shut down.