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  1. My goal is to get VHS (older homemade tapes - taped from TV; not the greatest quality, but not terrible) to DVD. I'm using ADVC-100 to convert and capturing DV Type 2 with scenalyzer.

    This was working fine. The tape has episodes of an old TV show, and I'd captured and converted 2 episodes. But now all of a sudden I'm starting to have problems - with the exact same tape. The video previews fine, but the captured avi files have weird multicolored scrambled things all over it (is this pixelation? artifacts? I don't really know my terms). Sometimes the files won't open in virtualdub at all - I get an error saying "AVI Import Filter Reconstructing Missing Index Block." These files will open in MediaPlayer, but they also show the multicolored scrambled bits.

    I also suddenly started getting "Out of memory" errors in scenalyzer when I captured an hour of tape. I have plenty of hard drive space - scenalyzer is running on a 40G HDD with about 15G free, and capturing to a 130G partition with about 95G free, so I don't understand this.

    So I was thinking this was a scenalyzer problem, but I tried a DVIO and got the multicolored blocks as well - again, from the exact same VHS tape from which I'd been capturing successfully before.

    Anyone have any ideas about what might be causing any of these problems? Is there some setting that is set improperly, or some codec I need (or don't need)? I'd hoped that capturing with ADVC-100 and scenalyzer would be easy, but it seems not to be so ....
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    I'm just starting to do vhs conversion with your same setup. Haven't hit those problems yet but a few guesses.

    Are you saying you are seeing that block problem when redoing a section of the tape that you'd already done once ok? Or is this a new section of the tape? If a new section I'm guessing just a bad spot on the tape and it is enough to mess up the conversion through the advc.

    For an 'Out of Memory' error, either you have a lot of other programs running in the background eating up memory. Try rebooting and just running Scenalyzer, if disconnected from the web shut off any antivirus program. It could also be that though you have 15G free on your C: drive, it is fragmented so the windows swap space (virtual memory) can't expand anymore so getting that error. Even if capturing to your large drive, Windows by default uses swap space on C:

    Try defraging your C drive.

    Beyond that, someone with more vhs conversion experience will have to jump in.
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  3. Are you saying you are seeing that block problem when redoing a section of the tape that you'd already done once ok? Or is this a new section of the tape? If a new section I'm guessing just a bad spot on the tape and it is enough to mess up the conversion through the advc.
    This is a section that I've already done once okay; that's what's so baffling. And like I said, it previews perfectly - and I'm assuming that what's shown on the Scenalyzer preview screen has already been converted by the advc.

    As for the out of memory error: I have no other programs running; I've tried rebooting and just running Scenalyzer. But defragging the C drive is a good idea - I'll try that next. As far as I can tell there's no way to change the swap space drive for Scenalyzer specifically.

    EDITED TO ADD: The problem looks like little pink and green and multicolored - almost psychedelic - "squares" - that block out portions of the picture. I've done a little bit of searching around on the forum - could this mean my avi file is corrupted? Why would this happen - and especially, why would this happen repeatedly, when I keep recapturing? Could something be wrong with my HD?
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  4. Here something that works for me 90% of the time.

    Just temporarily remove the active devices (or devices associateed with the faulty operation) from your Systems Properties. Be it the Firewire Card, Sound Card , NTSC Capture card....

    Rebotting your sytem will reinstall the device automatically.. moreoften than not.

    Sometimes installing a new peice of software will throw device's configuration off and this method allows itself to reestablish itself.

    And it's the easy thing to try.
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    Have you tried to check Canopus forums for that? How about calling Canopus? You paid for it didn't you?
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