WinDV Capture not working any more

[botanic]

Hi

I really don't understand what's going on, capture from my Canopus ADVC100 via firewire no longer works in any of WinDV, Nero, Moviemaker .... BUT I know the connectivity is fine because the "AVC Compliant DV Tape Recorder/Player" in Windows (XP Pro) Explorer displays the source absolutely fine. Sadly it's not possible to capture from there......

With WinDV I get,

"Runtime Error!"
Program: P:\WinDV\WinDV.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information."

Well I sent an email to the application's support team which was roundly ignored.

Any idea what might have happened? It used to work perfectly.....

Thanks

[botanic]

OK, I guess I'm left with the format and reinstall .........

[harley2ride]

What has changed? Did you update software? Did you update your Windows? Have you tried a system restore back to when things were working correctly?

[botanic]

Unfortunately I'm not sure. I don't appear to have any system restore points. The only thing I can think of which could be in any way relevant is removing some codecs which I didn't think I needed... then again I didn't think WinDV used any specific codecs anyway. I reinstalled every codec I could think of.

It's not a huge deal, that PC's due a rebuild soon anyway.

Frustrating not to understand it though...

[harley2ride]

I'm guessing that it was due to one of the codec's you uninstalled. I would make sure that you turn on your system restore function. It can save a lot of grief...

[botanic]

Those were my conclusions.

Thanks!