Re: Can't capture

Maverick wrote on 5/26/2005, 9:26 AM

Hi

Three or four weeks ago I was ablt to capture DV footage without problem. Now I cannot.

Firstly the only recognised Video device was my Creative Web Cam. THis kept causing the Sony Video Capture 5 to crash.

I unplugged the Web Cam and uninstalled the software then rebooted. Now there is no reference to the Firewire connection. The camera is connected and turned on and looking in Hardware Devicves all seems to be OK.

Can anyone shed some light as to what may be wrong here?

Cheers.

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Chienworks wrote on 5/26/2005, 9:56 AM

My new motherboard "forgets" about my firewire card regularly. I go into Control Panel / System / Hardware manager, delete the firewire card, and reboot. Windows finds the card and reinstalls it automatically and then i'm fine again for a few more days.

Maverick wrote on 5/26/2005, 10:52 AM

Thanks

I am in the middle of editing now and will try that later.

Actually I have two firewire inputs. One with the mother board and the other with Creative Labs Audigy 2.

Neither being recognised at present. I will report back hen I get chace to re-boot.

Cheers

Liam_Vegas wrote on 5/26/2005, 11:21 AM

What motherboard do you have? (HINT: Fill in your system info on your profile) What firewire chipset does it have?

A common problem is the motherboard firewire does not work and you have to get a dedicated PCI card (costs all of $20-$50). Disable the on-board and use the card instead. I had to do this with my ASUS P4C800-Deluxe motherboard.

Do not use the one on the sound card either - they also are known to be pretty incompatible.

newhope wrote on 5/26/2005, 3:54 PM

Maverick
If you include your system specs it's easier to offer considered help BUT...
I had the same problem after upgrading Win XP Pro to Service Pack 2.
It came down to a known problem in the MSDV.SYS file that is updated with SP2.
I found an article on the Microsoft website indicating how to roll back to an earlier version of the driver without uninstalling SP2 and by doing this I recovered the ability to capture on my system.
NOTE: This fault was very hardware specific... hence if you post your system setup it's easier to diagnose... in my case it was my DV deck that was incompatible with the newer driver, Sony DSR-30P, however if I plugged in my camera DSR-150P the capture worked normally.
Microsoft have the problem slated for a hotfix but haven't been too rushed about releasing it.
Check out the thread about 'DSR-30 can't capture' as I put a link into it to download the MSDV.SYS file that I am using (from SP1).