Capture software freezes after 2 frames/Many frames dropped

[jdn2000ca]

Hi,
I am using a Pentium 4 2.0ghz with 512 megs of ram PC running XP SP2. I have resently installed a 200Gig Western Digital hard disk, DVD burner from Pioneer and a combo USB Firewire card from Zonet(Zonet USB / Firewire ZUC2400.

All works well except the DV capture with the firewire connection. It does recognize the Sony Mini DV.

Whether I am using the Ulead Visual Studio V8.0SE or Movie Factory Suite V3.5 or ImageMixer V1.5 for Sony, I get the same result. After 2to 4 frames the video capture software freezes and popping sound is head from the PC's speakers.

When I use DVIO, WinDV, or MovieMaker more video is captured than the above software but still get many frames dropped.

Drivers used: VIA OHCI 1394 IEEE Compliant Host
Hard Drives First hard drive is 60 Gig FAT32 and the second one is 200GIG NTFS. I direct all video capture to the second one.
Video Camera: Sony Mini DV DCR-TRV33.

What can be causing these problems?

Please advise on possible items that I should look into.

Regards,
Joe

[jdn2000ca]

Hi,
Was just wondering? No one seems to have ever had this problem.

Have tryed a new firwire and the same problems occur.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe

[BJ_M]

try moving the firewire card to a new pci slot - or disabling your audio in your bios - or getting a better quality firewire card (like an ads)

[Fairhope]

Also, make sure no other processes are running in the background - i.e. virus protection, screen savers, other programs.

End them through taskmanager, except explorer of course. You can also use a freeware called EndItAll2 to stop many of the processes.

[jdn2000ca]

Thanks BJ_M and Fairhope.
I will try the card swap and then the ending of most processes.

I will let you know the results.

Thanks,
Joe

[jdn2000ca]

Hi BJ_M,
Thanks for your help.
Just swapping the pci slot did the trick.
It know works without dropping any frames and without shutting down any other background applications.

Thanks again,
Joe

[edDV]

Also it is best to capture to a separate partition, better yet separate drive and IDE channel from the Windows OS.

Place all scratch fles and capture buffers on this separate drive for best results.