Hi Stan

May have you beat for wierdness, though I'm hoping my problem might give you a clue as to a workaround. I've got a marvel 400, and the matrox capture driver holds onto whatever settings for format -- I assume you've got the same sort of driver setup. If I start the capture prog. with the hardware mpeg selected, except for the very first time, I'll get a crash. If I select a non hardware format (YUV or RGB) in another program before I start the capture app, or if I select YUV or RGB before closing the capture app, all's fine. Another way I found to get it to work, was to delete the registry key: current user->software-> sonic foundry -> videocapture (changing the entries doesn't help) -- this had to be done each time before starting the capture program. Maybe that'll give ya some clue (I hope), & if tech support's listening -- HELP! Thanks mike Stan Arthur wrote: >>I have a unique problem with video capture that I haven't >>yet seen in this forum. >> >>1) After installing Video Capture, upon starting it, it >>takes a full two minutes or so for the program to actually >>load and start. Very odd. >> >>2) After selecting my Matrox Marvel G-200 card as the input >>source, everything works fine. I get my analog captures and >>do saves after each one to prevent losses in the event of a >>crash. >> >>3) The problem comes when I close the Video Capture program >>and then try to restart it. It starts up right away, >>without the two-minute wait, but then it won't let me >>select a video source. The only fix I have found is to >>completely uninstall the program and reinstall it. I hate >>having to do this and hope that there is a fix. >> >>Operating System: Win98 >>DirectX version: Current Release >>Hard drive type (SCSI/IDE): IDE 20 gig 7500rpm >>Computer: Compaq PIII 700 - 384 megs ram >>Capture card: Matrox Marvel G-200 >>Camera: Analog >>