pctvcap.dll could not be opened!!

Dave_G wrote on 6/26/2003, 5:54 AM

I am trying to capture some video via firewire with Vegas 4, but keep getting a message saying "The device 'pctvcap.dll' could not be opened. Please make sure that it is turned on and not in use by another user"

I have tried logging off and on again but nothing is happening.

Can anyone help? Thanks

Comments

craftech wrote on 6/26/2003, 6:23 AM

That's a Windows XP driver. Is that your OS?

John

Dave_G wrote on 6/26/2003, 6:24 AM

Yes I am on XP. How do I go about fixing it?

Thanks

mikkie wrote on 6/26/2003, 8:26 AM

A guess, TV card drivers (ie: pctvcap.dll) shouldn't be involved during anything firewire, yet something is trying to call them. Doesn't work of course because the TV part of things isn't open. So I'd look at the TV card end of things, see how everything is set up, maybe temporarily disabling the TV card drivers would be quicker? Wouldn't hurt of course to make sure winxp etc. is up tp date, wouldn't hurt to look at what services are running in winxp -> could be something to do with the tv card is running with windows, and intercepting video calls from Vegas.

craftech wrote on 6/26/2003, 12:19 PM

If you are using DIVX 5, delete it using the equipment manager in XP and install DIVX 4.

If you have an Audigy soundcard there are some misconfigurations around (easy to screw up). Go over each input and output for microphone, etc. and make sure everything is set up properly.

I you have a Pinnacle PCTV PCI card there are lots of problems (as with all Pinnacle products). If you have version 5.xx of the product you should update to version 5.5 here:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?ProductID=306&SubDocTypesID=67

Finally,
Here are some general tweaks for Windows XP to make it friendlier to video editing:

http://www.videoguys.com/TweaksWINXPVE.html

John