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Posted by Doz on 04/25/06 09:10
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:20:53 +0100, Davey Boy 2 wrote:
> "Mike Day" <mikeday59@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:SwQ2g.57170$Nh7.7292@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an old Sony analogue camcorder with a number of tapes which I wish
>> to copy to my PC. I have bought and installed a WinFast VC100 video
>> capture card along with WinFast PVR software. The video capture seems to
>> work OK for the first 20 minutes of the analogue tape but then a jitter
>> starts which gets worse as time goes on. When I look through the
>> viewfinder on the carcorder there is no jitter so it is definitely not a
>> problem with the original recording. I have ensured that I have a large
>> enough swap file and there is plenty of space on my HDD. Can anyone offer
>> any advice as I have tried everything that I can think of and I still
>> can't resolve the problem.
>>
>> TIA
>> Mike
>
> I've no experience of the WinFast capture software and my feeling is that
> this isn't the cause of the problem but have you tried capturing using Movie
> Maker? It may be worth running Task Manager to keep an eye on memory
> utilisation as it is possible you have a memory leak on your hands.
>
> I'm guessing that if you start the tape 20 minutes further in you still get
> the problem but 20 minutes later?
>
> I'm also assuming you have done all of the normal stuff like defrag the disk
> and check it for errors. Are you running Windows XP (pro/home)? Is your
> partition Fat32 or NTFS?
>
> Dave
Are you running an antivirus prog during the capture... try disabling it.
I had the same problem.. it was when the capture software split the file at 2
gig and started another file the AV software attempted to check the whole 2 gig
for viruses and borked the system!
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