OT Dropped Frames/Services.exe

murphy wrote on 5/13/2006, 10:41 AM

I ‘m hoping someone here can help me work out this issue.

The symptoms are dropping frames during capture or vidcap just freezing. I have a Sony VX 2000 doing a live capture via firewire. I’m on an Athlon XP 3000 with a gig of ram. Using XP professional DMA is enabled. It happens with Vegas 4 and Vegas 5.

I have run various anti-virus/adware programs including Adware SE, SpySweeper, AVG, trend micro, Nod32 etc. just to name a few. I have been using this pc to capture this way for quite awhile without any problems so I’m ruling out hardware as an issue

Here what happens during capture with task manager open if I am off the internet services.exe starts using cpu power between 10-40% and I start dropping frames.
If I am on-line, have my internet connection on, services.exe goes back to 0 and the dropped frame issues resolves itself. In researching services.exe being a resource hog I found these symptoms are an indication of a virus but I can’t seem to discover it using the programs that I have. I’ve searched suggestions on the forum for various anti-virus programs, which I’ve tried but none are showing a any viruses or spyware on my system

Thanks for any suggestions

Murph

Comments

Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/13/2006, 11:43 AM

Hey Murph,
Where are you capturing to??
If it's your boot drive, or an external f/w drive on the same card as your camera, those could be your problems with dropped frames.

HTH,
Tom

johnmeyer wrote on 5/13/2006, 12:51 PM

Dropped Frames VASST FAQ

murphy wrote on 5/13/2006, 2:16 PM

Thanks for the suggestions I'm using windows 2000 with the current service pack and capturing to an internal hard drive, not my system drive, and also
tried capturing to a usb 2 external hardrive same result.
Thanks for the link to the VASST info.didn't see a solution there.

Services.exe starts increasing cpu usage weather I am capturing video or just monitoring the task manager.This starts as soon as I go off line . When I am on line services.exe goes back to 0% cpu usage.

I realize I can just capture while I am connected to the internet as a workaround but It seems that it's not a good long term solution

Chienworks wrote on 5/13/2006, 3:27 PM

Try booting up with your network cable disconnected. This may prevent network services from even starting to begin with.

murphy wrote on 5/15/2006, 8:07 AM

Thanks Chienworks I tried booting with the network cable unplugged and still got the same results services.exe is drawing up to 20% of cpu usage ontill I reconnect the cable then after a brief spike of cpu usage it goes down to zero.

JJKizak wrote on 5/15/2006, 9:29 AM

Sounds to me like a definite virus in your system 32. Use the search function on all files added after a certain date and look for very awkward named files like heaphon.exe. They will all be exe files.
JJK