Posted by Davey Boy 2 on 04/24/06 07:20

"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

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