Picture freezes while I am capturing video

[fiftyplus]

I am capturing video from my TV or VHS tapes using the program Nero Vision Express and using the hardware Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80. After about 5 minutes of capturing the video freezes and my computer freezes. I contacted Nero technical support via email, got one response from them after about 2 weeks and when I replied I never heard back from them and they charge a fee if you call them. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Fiftyplus

[Cole]

My experience with Dazzle hardware was a very hit and miss affair. I had a Dazzle video CD creater and it was very crash-able.

However, looking at your PC details, I would ask the following question:
What are you capturing? Is it MPEG1, MPEG2, or .AVI. If it is .AVI then you are capturing a large file and two things need to be taken into account:
If your drives are FAT32 then they will stop at 4Gb of capture.
If your drive is NTFS, there may just not be the room left on your hard-drive as you have a relatively small drive for capture (obviously, I don't know how much free space is available).

If this is MPEG1/2 capture, then does the Dazzle come with its own capture software and does this capture software cause the same problems?

Having said all that; have a look at user comments here for Nero. There may be some hints as to what the problem would be:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=NeroVision_Express

Hope that this is helpful and if I have missed something blatant, then I am sure someone will help out.

[fiftyplus]

I am capturing video from my TV or VHS tapes using the program Nero Vision Express and using the hardware Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80. After about 5 minutes of capturing the video freezes and my computer freezes. I contacted Nero technical support via email, got one response from them after about 2 weeks and when I replied I never heard back from them and they charge a fee if you call them. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Fiftyplus

Wow it is not freezing anymore. Before getting your response I was capturing to DVD. I tested capturing to MPEG 2 and it did not freeze. Thanks a bunch Cole.

BUT NOW AS I GO TO THE NEXT STEP SAVING TO A DVD I HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM: I selected make a DVD Video in Nero and added the video file that was saved in Nero's capture folder and it started the recording process but ran for a long long time so I aborted the process. I tried this several times and the same thing happens. For example, it had remaining time left 25 minutes and I left my house and let it keep running and got back 3 hours later and it was still running and the blue bar had not changed in length. On the screen it said recording process remaining time 25 minutes but yet 3 hrs had elapsed. I even turned off my antivirus and firewall before I started the saving process because before turning them off the computer would freeze.

I am using Windows XP. My hard drive total size is 57.2 GB and I have 35.0 GB of free space. I am using Nero version 6. I have gotten all the lasted updates.

Fiftyplus

[harley2ride]

Nero is a very poor authoring software. Look at some of the other authoring softwares listed in the tools section.

[redwudz]

If you are capturing to MPEG-2, have you checked the DVD specifications to the upper left in 'What is' DVD? If you are able to capture at those specs., you should just be able to author and burn to DVD. The 1/2 D1 setting may be better for the sources you have. It's a little easier on the computer also. If your capture is not DVD compliant, then it will have to be re-encoded, which will take extra time.

One easy way to process it may be the freeware version of DivxToDVD. It's on the page I linked to. Nero is undoubtedly trying to re-encode which it does often and poorly. It's good for burning, but not much else, IMO.

[fiftyplus]

I am capturing video from my TV or VHS tapes using the program Nero Vision Express and using the hardware Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80. After about 5 minutes of capturing the video freezes and my computer freezes. I contacted Nero technical support via email, got one response from them after about 2 weeks and when I replied I never heard back from them and they charge a fee if you call them. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Fiftyplus

Per your suggestion and after reading the information in their site I downloaded and tried DivxToDVD but after about 5 minutes of going through the conversion process my computer froze. I tried it several more times and it did the same thing. I always turn off my antivirus and firewall while during this so that is not the problem.

I am so close to tackling this, if I could only find out why the computer keeps freezing. Are their any other suggestions?

Fiftyplus