Recognize this picture...? (jagged DV quality)

[klauslauritsen]

I'm a newbie,- going through the forums, I didn't find any help, so here's my question: Trying to transfer DV content from my Canon MV20 to my WinXPsp2 via a FireWire-PCI-card, the result looks like this:
, also when I double-click the camera icon in Windows, both in camera- and playback mode. Same problem on another WinXPsp2 PC. I've used the camera with an older Win2K setup with success before... any idea?

[Capmaster]

What are you viewing it with in Windows? Canon's own app?

It looks corrupted.

Try opening it in a regular video editor (not Media Player) and see how it looks.

Also, make sure there is no hardware conflict (IRQ) with your FW card.

[klauslauritsen]

IRQ reports no problems. The FW-driver has been reinstalled. Sonic MyDVD "...cannot detect signal". WinDV just reports "error", though a "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR" is listed as Video source... I'll try to get another cable and also check on another PC to see if it's the camera...

[Raga]

Got a fairly similar view just a moment ago trying to play a NTSC-tape on a PAL-camera.

[thecoalman]

If you haven't already done so hook it up to a TV, that will at least eliminate the cam and tape for the most part.

[klauslauritsen]

It's the camera. And I'm maybe to blame myself : I did the mv20 -> MV20i upgrade 2 years ago (see http://www.xs4all.nl/~bbouwens/dv/intro.html), and have had no problems with it. The only thing that has happend since then is testing WebCamDV (http://www.orangemicro.com/webcamdv.html),- after that the FireWire output looks jagged... I've downgraded to MV20 again, but no difference... The analogue output is OK, and it's all-PAL.

[Deekkeed]

I have also had this happen to me on a firewire transfer. The video looked fine in the preview window. But the transferred video was corrupt on play back. I have no idea what caused it, but when I re-transferred the clip from a slightly different staring point (1 or 2 sec into the video). The resulting video was fine. I believe that the data stream was corrupted ether buy the camera, but more likely the capture software when writing the header information to the AVI file, because I transferred a long video using DV scene detection which resulted in multiple AVI’s and Only the first AVI was corrupted and all the others that followed were fine.

Deek

[andy67]

Hi

I'm having exactly the same problem and none of the "solutions" that I've found on the internet has worked. I'm running XP SP2, and get exactly the effect shown in the picture above whatever software I use. The general opinion seems to be that there's a compatibility problem with the Windows Firewire drivers and a PAL camera being treated like NTSC. I hope that somebody can find a solution that works.

Andy

[andy67]

Here's the link for the proposed solution, but it didn't work for me:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker/messages/4b6...13aef05c21bcd5

[klauslauritsen]

andy 67 and all,
It seems to works for me!! Thanx for the link andy67.

[andy67]

I'll try it again then! Glad it helped.