virtual Dub freezes

[descha]

Hi there,
I have big problems and I'm going crazy with my caputring.
I have read the artikel about caputring with virtual dub. So fare so fine.
Everything seems to work fine. But and the the and of capturing, virtual dub freezes and all. Nothing works. Only a reset of the computer makes the things going on. The captured videostreem is damaged as well.
I work with W2K SP2, Hauppauge WinTV PCI with VfW driver, DirectX 8.1,

[gll99]

This problem is not just with virtualdub. Vfw drivers often act up and lock especially if your processor is overtaxed by running at or near 100%. When you abnormally cancel the app you lock up the driver and it won't work again until you reboot. I have written some VB capture code based
that driver and unless the app releases it there is nothing you can do but reboot.

Unfortunately Virtualdub needs vfw for capturing.

You could try "wdm" drivers they are faster and even if they lock up (which is rare) you can kill the app and restart without rebooting the sys.

The only drawback is that you need to use a different app for capture.

Freeware like amcap and virtualvcr will capture to avi, as will shareware iuVCR.

Commercial program demos like Wincode and Powervcr II will let you capture Mpeg1 and Mpeg2 in realtime.

[descha]

Thanks for your reply.
I tried WDM-driver as well. But finaly the app crashs as well.
The WDM-driver for the winTV support only VCD (no SVCD) resolution.
So i tried the VFW driver.
The CPU is running at 50%. and when I stopped caputiring, there is no CPU-stress.