Need help on Capturing from miniDV camcorder to laptop

[Traveler]

I'm new on this. It has been pushing me into frustration. I'm try to capture video from a minDV digital camcorder to a SONY notebook through i.Link. But the software I tried, it seems always has lags. Like it is capturing fine in the first ten seconds, then the scene freezes and skips few seconds. I see the video plays fine on the camcorder, but just can't get it right on the capturing.

[Thorn]

Many laptops have very sloow hard drives - do you know if yours can handle 3.4 MB/s?

Also, make sure you have nothing running in the background (including scheduler or screen savers).

It could also be a problem with the firewire port, but I don't know how you can test that.

What os are you running?

[The village idiot]

What OS are you running? What processor? What transfer app? Is your harddrive defragmented?

[Traveler]

Windows XP, PIII850MHz.
I've tried MS Movie Maker, MovieXone, and ScenAlyzer. They really disappoint me.
But just now, I tried Adobe Premiere. It works miracle.

[The village idiot]

Also try DVio. I've read some posts saying it does not work well with XP, but it is free, and a very small download. It is a VERY basic user interface, which means it is not eating up a lot of resources. It also captures to either type1 or type2 DV. Type2 is the one you want for most applictions to be able to play it. Plus you can use it to move your finished video back out to tape, or play it out through an analog->DV, DV->analog device. If you look around this forum, you will find that I suggest it alot. Like many people say... The best things in life are free.

[Traveler]

Hei~ DVio is good
Works miracle as well, and save me some time like loading Premiere.
Thanks for the intro