"Scene detect" capture locks up system

riredale wrote on 9/26/2002, 7:51 PM
I've found recently that if I capture without scene detection and if I set the rollover point to 4GB (I'm using W98SE still) then VV3 captures faithfully. But if I ask it to capture with Scene Detection on, at about the 1-hour point the system will lock up--and I mean REALLY lock up, to the extent that only a hard reset will bring the system back alive. What's going on? I note after rebooting that VV3 had detected anywhere from 100 to perhaps 140 scenes before crashing everything.

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bakerja wrote on 9/26/2002, 10:04 PM
That sounds like an operating system fault. The way the win9x engine mis-handles memory, I find it amazing that VV will even work at all.
riredale wrote on 9/29/2002, 12:25 AM
Okay, here's what was happening.

My W98SE system would capture and split the 4GB files properly, but at some point anywhere from 20 to 70 minutes, suddenly the display would lock up completely. The disk would still be capturing video, but only for a minute or two longer, then all activity would cease. The only way to recover would be to do a hard reset.

After trying numerous possibilities, I downloaded the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers for my Gigabyte GA7-ZX motherboard (Athlon CPU and VIA chipset). After installing the drivers, problem solved.

The hanging had nothing to do with scene detection or with the VV3 software.
salad wrote on 9/29/2002, 9:08 AM
You gotta love those VIA 4-in-1 driver updates.......once a month it seems. Fixed a couple prob's for folks here.