Caputer problem - solution?

[merkin]

Here is a section of an online FAQ I found relating to my problem:

"Question:
Occasionally, I see thin horizontal strips in the captured video that looks like they came from the last frame???

Answer:
No one has a rock-solid answer for why these problems occur, but it appears to be caused by contention on the PCI bus, which then prevents the sound card and video capture devices from emptying their buffers in time. This problem is reported more frequently on motherboards that have a VIA chipset, or in systems that have a SoundBlaster Live! sound card. In the former case, try upgrading your VIA 4-in-1 drivers first, and if that is not sufficient, check for a motherboard BIOS update that specifically addresses your problem. As for the Live!, the Creative driver is known to cause problems by lowering the latency timer of the PCI bus. (The result is similar that of making the red lights appear every ten seconds at a four-way intersection.) In that case, try installing the Microsoft drivers instead.

Also, check the websites for the hardware manufacturers to see if they have utilities which may help. For instance, Pinnacle has a PCI adjustment utility for some of their cards.

If you are using RGB24 for your raw capture format, switch to YUY2 to drop your raw datarate by 33% (see below), which may be enough to lower PCI bus load to workable levels."

This is my exact problem, I don't have a VIA chipset however I do have a SB live! 5.1 soundcard. It says I should use the 'windows drivers' instead of the Creative drivers, but where can I find the windows drivers?! Anyone got any ideas how should go about updating the Creatives drivers to the Windows drivers?

[donpedro]

Here is an idea....

Try to unindtall SB software and then go to Device Manager and delete SB card entry. When you reboot it might (again this is just my theory) recognize you SB card as new hardware and it might install Win driver. Also maybe by going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com you might find latest update from MS for SB card.