Capturing to AVI's

[DennisHagemann]

I have just installed a second harddrive. I put it on the secondary IDE port as the master and assigned it "Z". It seems to work just fine except for the following big issue: If I capture to the drive into an AVI with either NeroVision or Adobe Premiere Elements the AVI's are corrupted. If I take the AVI and move it to my primary harddrive or an USB external dirve, then the corruption disappears. If I then move the AVI back to the harddrive the corruption is back. It seems like the CODEC doesn't work with the drive. I swapped the drive with another and I get the same issue. So I don't think it's the drive.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

[harley2ride]

Is your secondary drive the same specs as your primary drive (ata133/ATA100, etc...) is it formatted the same NTFS or FAT32, does it have the same amout of cache, did you defrag it before you start the capture. Have you tried replacing the IDE cable? It could be bad. Try changing power connectors (move primary drives connector to secondary drive, and secondary to primary. Maybe a power issue. There are lots of things it could be. Start eliminating one thing at a time until you find the problem.

[edDV]

What kind of corruption? Can you grab a frame?

What are you capturing and what is the capture file format? What CODEC? Is this DV?

[mikiem]

What's plugged in as secondary slave? Unplug?

Never heard of anyone using Z -- try normal naming? Shouldn't matter I guess but never know.

Change IDE cable as posted? Check how drive configured in device mgr?

Is the drive used for anything else, temp files or virtual mem etc...? Is the drive set up as NTFS encrypted? Do you have indexing or any of that on?

[DennisHagemann]

It looks like I may have resolved my issue. My motherboard is an Asus P4B266. I have the latest BIOS which claims to handle 48 bit addressing. I have replaced the drive with a 120mb dirve and everything is working fine now. Eventhough XP reconized the 200mb drive I guess the hardware didn't like it.

What doesn't make sense to me is that I could drag the AVI (DV) files to my 120mb primary drive and I could play them from there.