WinDV acting goofy

[stantheman1976]

I'm trying to capture some stuff with WinDV and it's acting up splitting files at abnormal sizes when it shouldn't be splitting at all. I've got 18 tapes total from one day that are all new recorded at once with no pauses. I've for WinDV set for type 2, discontinuity threshold of 1, max size 1,000,000 frames, every n-th frame at 1. With these settings it should capture a single file until the timecode on the tape stops, correct? It is capturing up to 7GB and then splitting into a bunch of smaller size files that are all different.

I'm capturing onto a 1TB Western Digital My Book that is 2 weeks old and formatted in NTFS. Dropped frames are not a problem and I captured one tape fine with the discontinuity set to 0. I'm running Vista Home Premium with SP1 if that could mean anything. I use the same settings on my XP desktop and have no issues. Any ideas?

[minidv2dvd]

if you don't want it to split files set discontinuity to 0.

[gadgetguy]

Flaws on the tape causing discontinuity errors?

Edit: Setting DT to 0 will capsfer it all as 1 file, but won't stop at the end of the timecode on the tape. You could try increasing the DT to 3 or 4. That might make it ignore small errors.

[stantheman1976]

I want it to stop at timecode end. I tried setting DT at 5 at first. The one tape I transferred successfully stopped at timecode end even with DT set to 0. My Vistap laptop seems to act differently than my XP despktop.

[gadgetguy]

Might be a Vista thing then. I don't have Vista, so I can't confirm or deny...

[stantheman1976]

That's what my gut feeling is. I just finished a second tape with DT set to 0 and on the Vista laptop it stops at timecode end.