Posted by Mike Day on 04/25/06 20:17

"Davey Boy 2" <d.d@s.p.i.com.spam> wrote in message
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> "Mike Day" <mikeday59@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> 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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