Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 05/06/06 17:06

On Sat, 06 May 2006 05:41:28 GMT, Ralf Hutter <yowsa@mindblown.net>
wrote:


Hi - I think, despite the 1Ghz machine, your problem is really likely
to be windows 98. It's simply not designed to offer anywhere near
real-time operating system performance (win2k is better and XP better
still in this regard).

The driver model was completely rewritten - remember, Win98 and Win95
are pretty much over 10 years old and predate *all* your hardware !

An XP disk would cost you about £50 GBP and offer far more benefits
than sticking with 98 and trying to brazen it out. That's my advice.

One thing I'd check is in device manager for IRQ conflicts, it sounds
as though something is causing the DV capture card to intermittently
'stall' (or possibly the disk IRQ conflicts with some other device).

The other check I'd make again in device manager - make sure your disk
drives and controller are set to use UDMA and not PIO transfers, on
everything but the CDROM. And make *absolutely sure* the CD drive
cable is connected to a different IDE connector than any of your hard
disks, particularly ones used for the OS or video capture.

In old machines, and in Win98, the disk will be limited to the speed
of the lowest device capability on the IDE bus, so if your HDD shares
a cable with the CDROM, disconnect it, buy a new $1 IDE cable and
connect HDD to IDE0, CD to IDE1.

>
>My C: drive failed, and the ability to capture seamless DV :-(
>I used Ulead VideoStudioPro 8; Premiere 6.0 would freeze the
>computer.
>Win98se with Asus CUSL2-c with 1ghz system. MS DV codec I think!
>
>Installed a new hard drive same as before, except I included the
>Win98se WindowsTV option. UleadVSP 8 as before, but also with
>Premiere 6.5. I have the TI DV driver/codec? installed.
>
>I can capture with both programs equally badly this time. I can
>preview fine, but when I start capture, the hard drive light burns
>fiercely for two seconds, then goes completely off for a second; then
>burns bright for another two seconds (with the old setup, the hard
>drive light would flicker at a steady rate, and not a frame would be
>dropped). The playback is garbage; juddery frames and whole sections
>missing.
>
>Ideas? could it be the Texas Instruments 1394 files? I t seems to
>be a "data transfer within the computer" issue, according to how the
>hard drive light behaves.
>
>Thanks for taking the time to read this query!
>
>CHeers,, JeffT
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