Issue with capturing miniDV tapes using WinDV/DVIO

[use]

I’ve been trying to transfer footage from my camcorder (HDR-FX1E) to my computer using a 4 to 9 pin firewire cable and a firewire card. The footage appears in WinDV’s preview and it captures fine until it cuts to a different shot, at which point the preview freezes and the capture pauses, not being able to be unpaused. Additionally, at any point cancelling the capture to save the footage (whether this is before or after the preview has frozen) the process gets stuck on initialising and after about a minute my whole computer will become unresponsive. Interestingly, the footage up to where the preview froze/stopped capturing is saved correctly and can be used as normal. I am using tbe legacy firewire drivers and have tried changing the settings in WinDV but nothing seems to help either of these issues. I have also tried using DVIO, and while it doesn’t have a preview the frame count stops increasing after a cut and it also freezes my computer when saving files, so I’m not really sure what could be happening.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.

[Alwyn]

Give Scenalyzer a crack; for me, it has been more robust than WinDV with Win 10 and 11. I have written a guide for it here.

FWIW, I tried a Startech FW card but couldn't get it to work. I reverted to a cheap VIA card from Amazon, which works well.

The computer freeze is a worry; try using the default FW driver.

[aedipuss]

hdr-fx1e should have recorded in hdv not dv. windv is only for dv. use hdvsplit to capture hdv footage.

[Alwyn]

For HDV, HDVSplit guide here.

[use]

The footage was recorded as dv, not hdv, so I’m not sure if HDVsplit would work.

[Alwyn]

HDVSplit definitely not work with DV.

[aedipuss]

if it's definitely dv and not just the camera set to export hdv as dv then try these settings in windv.