Capture stalling

[Chris_shaw]

When trying to capture video using a newer Canon camcorder and firewire, MM
often stalls and stops capturing. I’ve tried both lower and higher quality
settings for the capture. The lower quality seems to work a lot better, but
can still stall. I’d like to make DVDs of home movies, so am really looking
for higher quality.

I’ve defraged my hard drive, updated my video card (ATI) and have turned off
Norton 360. None of this seems to help. Everything works fine when
capturing using a friend’s older computer, so I’m assuming it’s something
wrong with my computer/settings/hard drive? I have a four year old HP 3700
AMD Athalon 64 processor and a 200 GB hard drive with lots of space.

Any thoughts?

 

[walter]

When trying to capture video using a newer Canon camcorder and
firewire, MM often stalls and stops capturing. I've tried both lower
and higher quality settings for the capture. The lower quality seems
to work a lot better, but can still stall. I'd like to make DVDs of
home movies, so am really looking for higher quality.

I've defraged my hard drive, updated my video card (ATI) and have
turned off Norton 360. None of this seems to help. Everything works
fine when capturing using a friend's older computer, so I'm assuming
it's something wrong with my computer/settings/hard drive? I have a
four year old HP 3700 AMD Athalon 64 processor and a 200 GB hard
drive with lots of space.

Any thoughts?

Yes. My first thought is, why did you post this four times?

As to your problem, you mentioned everything but how much RAM you have in
the machine, and whether or not your particular ATI card has any onboard RAM
of it's own. If it does not, and you don't have (bare minimum) 512 Mb of
RAM (most of it available) that could be your issue.

Other things to consider:

- You're infested with malware that's consuming RAM/CPU cycles by constantly
'phoning home'.

Download/install/update/run Malwarebytes from;
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

- You have too many other legitimate programs running (consuming CPU/RAM)
while trying to import the video.

Shut everything down *except* WMM.

- Spend half a day completely ridding yourself of anything Norton.

There are free A/V programs out there that do just as good a job, and aren't
*nearly* as invasive.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html for one.