Major problems with Dazzle MovieStar software

[Admiral Falcon]

So here I am, blissfully capturing my miniDV tapes to my HDD, when suddenly the video preview stops and freezes on the last frame displayed. Capture appears to continue, judging by the filesizes created in the end, but there's a slight problem.

When I try to open/play the DV-AVI in MovieStar, it whirrs away for a second and then stops. All of the buttons (except for 'play/stop') are disabled, there is no video in the player panel, and trying to drag the DV-AVI to the Timeline/Storyboard crashes the system.

Opening the AVI in VirtualDub shows me everything that was captured, except now I can't get the sound, and I don't have space to capture to DV then re-convert to DV-Type2.

Running WinME, so I have to split the files. But here's something odd: the first capture file is 3.99GB when this happens. Given that I've set MovieStar to split the files at 2 GB, something is obviously wrong. Problem is, I don't have the slightest idea how to work around this.

[draganong]

Use TWNH.

[qlizard]

Is there a reason you are using Moviestar? From what I have read it must be the buggiest software ever made.
I'm using a dazzle dvc150 to capture straight to mpeg and was lucky to find a lot of information warning agianst using moviestar.

[Admiral Falcon]

There is a very good reason: It came with my firewire card and I have no other DV-cap programs on my machine.

I have yet to find a freeware DV-cap program able to get around the FAT32 4GB limit. Without that, the program is useless.

Apparently, MovieStar is simply ignoring my Split Size settings. Just tried a short re-capture with Split Size set to 5MB; it generated a single 84MB file after twenty seconds. I can't even find any ****ing registry settings for this program, and TWNH is barking at me in German - with "Class not registered" being the only English in the error dialog.

[indolikaa]

I have yet to find a freeware DV-cap program able to get around the FAT32 4GB limit. Without that, the program is useless.

Try WinDV.

Set your maximum number of frames to 18 minutes (32,400 frames). When WinDV reaches the frame limit, it will create a new file. The files can be seamlessly joined in VirtualDub for frameserving to TMPGEnc. I realize this would completely bypass the MovieStar software and eliminate realtime encoding, but after having been the once-proud owner of a Dazzle DVC-II, well...

WinDV should find the capture driver for the Dazzle DV device.

.indolikaa.