Hello all. I have been reading posts and how to's but can't seem to find my problem addressed anywhere so i finally decide to post about it. I have been capturing video from a VCR into a hauppage WinTV capture card using Vdub. I am not having any frame drop issues or audio stutters or anything of that nature, the video I do capture is great at all sizes. Using the Huffyuv compression with the YUV formatting instead of RGB and all that and no audio compression.

However, I can't seem to capture without the program suddenly stopping after a random interval. By stopping, I mean it stops the capture as if i had hit the escape key or whatever is set to stop the capture.

i tried changing video buffers around, increasing them from the default of 10 up to 20 and then 50 and 100 but it seemed to have no affect. It happens no matter whether i am using stereo or mono cd quality, and 320x240 or 640x480 sizes. i am not getting unusual CPU usage and the hard drive is a few weeks old, using DMA enabled in a FAt32 40GB sized partition. All programs and OS are on a seperate hard drive.

I dont think it is a card bus conflict as i am getting 0 frame drops, so it doesnt seem like resaources are being fought over.

The time intervals seem random, i have been able to capture segements of various lengths, it doesnt seemed tied to file size or a particualr system parameter, just totally random, it's up and running and working fine chugging away at the capture and then just stops. No system freeze or blue screen or error messages or anything.

has anyone experienced a smiliar problem and figured out why it happened and how to fix it? my only work around is to pause the vcr, rewind to a few seconds before it stopped and then start capturing to a new file, which means lots of editing and splicing afterwards since it will only capture a few more minutes before stopping again.

I'd like to have more control and hope that if I was to hook the Cable or something up to the card instead of a VCR I could use the computer as a TiVO type appliance and set it to record a program at a certain time and what not, but since it randomly stops capturing this option seems far away.

It would also be nice to capture large chunks of analog camcorder video stream and then cut the file up into chunks later as opposed to capture a few seconds, stop the camcorder, reset Vdub, etc, but this too seems impossible given the random stops.

Sorry for such a long post, if I left any details out please ask and I will be happy to fill them in. TIA