VMS10: capturing minidv crashes

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/15/2010, 12:39 AM

I needed to capture a minidv tape (firewire) with VMS10 and Capture vid 6, and guess what, it crashes. No dropped frames. Just clicking on the Capture tab to watch the progress, while multitasking (using MS Office), will induce a crash of the capture program.
Does anybody know a solution?

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stbo wrote on 6/15/2010, 12:48 AM

There is a reference in the release notes to some known issue in relation to the USB driver for capturing - you might want to check out what usb drivers your camera is using.

I captured three full minidv tapes yesterday evening without an issue. No dropped frames, and multi-tasking as well (although not a good idea, as starting up some dick-intensive applications, or apps which set screen modes can interrupt capturing and cause dropped frames.)

Hope this helps.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/15/2010, 4:57 AM

I do use firewire to capture.
Did some more testing.
Since I have still VMS8 installed on the same machine, I directed VMS10 to version 8's capture program. Now capturing seems to work. The funny thing is that vms8 and vms10 come with the exact same vidcap program, version 6.0e build 1000. But, like I said, the version that comes with vms10 is faulty. Perhaps it is the registry?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/15/2010, 7:52 AM

Seems like a hardware issue is causing the error: the camera's battery is faulty and must me replaced.

Markk655 wrote on 6/15/2010, 9:36 AM

Good troubleshooting, but shouldn't that be VMS version independent?