Video studders durning capture

August73 wrote on 1/29/2004, 2:30 PM
I am trying to capture video from a VCR to an dedicated hard drive useing firewire and a capture device. When I start the capture it will be fine but after a minute or so it studders and seems to get stuck on a frame. I have to stop the VCR and restart the capture and then it will work fine for a little bit again. When it is working, I'm not droping any frames. My capture device came with Pinnacle software (which I threw in the garbage because it never worked correctly). But when I was using Pinnacle I didn't have any capture problems. Is there some way to fix this or could it be my device? Can someone recomend a different device if I need one?

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/29/2004, 5:37 PM
I don’t know what Pinnacle device you have but most of them are proprietary and only work with their software. You might want to re-install the Pinnacle software just to capture and print-to-tape and use Screenblast for everything else.

~jr
ADinelt wrote on 1/29/2004, 6:02 PM
I have the Pinnacle DC10plus analog capture card and it came with Studio 8. Like you, I gave up on Studio 8 and just use the capture card.

Pinnacle provides a regdelete utility (available from their website) that you will want to run after uninstalling all of the software. This utility removes any Pinnacle entries from the registry (which their uninstall program should but doesn't do). Next, install only the driver for the capture card.

This has worked fairly well for me and I can capture using Screenblast and VideoDub without any real problems. I do still encounter some problems every now and then when trying to capture two hours at a stretch, which is due to the driver.

You can get the regdelete utility here:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/docsupport1.asp?division_id=1&langue_id=7&product_id=577&product_name=&page_id=151

Hope this helps...
Al
August73 wrote on 1/29/2004, 6:27 PM
But I threw out all of the Pinnacle software and just kept the capture card thinking it would still work.
Former user wrote on 1/29/2004, 6:38 PM
If your hardware is anything other than a firewire card, you need the Pinnacle software. As stated earlier, it is all proprietary stuff.

Dave T2
Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/30/2004, 9:45 AM
The hardware isn't the problem, if he's using firewire. The Pinnacle cards are OHCI compliant and work universally.

As for the stuttering -- relax. If it's like mine, it's only the preview window that's stuttering. Your capture is fine. (Which I think you said is the case.)

It's inconvenient, but not a real problem. (Sort of like you're not being able to watch a capture with sound in Pinnacle.)