Firewire DV transfer, resulting DV avi file capture and playback issue.

[Tester]

Firewire DV transfer, resulting DV avi file capture and playback issue.

Camcorder works fine at work on an XP Pro SP2 desktop.

At home I have an XP Home SP2 laptop and an XP Pro SP2 desktop with
firewire. They used to capture just fine before SP2, but since it works at
the office with SP2, I don't think it's that.

When I capture, it recognizing the camacorder the same as at the office, an
"AVC Compliant DV Camcorder". I can control the camcorder just fine and the
live video and audio preview is fine as well. But even though I don't get
dropped frames, I noticed that at home, the timeline pauses every few
seconds or so. And when I try to playback the video the audio is slightly
choppy and the Video is a frozen garbbled mess that doesn't really change. I
always capture in standard NTSC DV AVI for editing and export to DV tape and
DVD.

I thought it was SP2, since I haven't used it since installing SP2. But it
works at the office with SP2 and it does capture and the live preview is
fine. It's just the resulting file seems messed up. I should probably try
bringing the resulting file here to work and see if it plays fine here at
work. Maybe it's just a playback issue and the file is actually just fine.

Any ideas until that test?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I often run into playback issues during previews with Movie Maker or playing
in WMP10.... but they almost never are due to problems with the video files
themselves... and rendered movies that use them as source files don't have
problems. My expectation now is that, as long as I don't have any dropped
frames from the camcorder capture, any issue I see on the computer is a
computer or user issue, not a video file one.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Graham Hughes]

see .video as well where you posted this question previously

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Tester]

Well, wanted to post my findings. I saw an odd SCSI entry in my device
manager listing. Googled it and found it is part of Alcohol 120% burning
software package. So for kicks, I uninstalled it, rebooted, and now on my
desktop with SP2, my DV avi captures are no longer corrupted.

As an overview, My camcorder would be detected just fine, I can control it
fine and even the live capture preview video and audio was fine, but the
resulting avi file was always getting corrupted. Now with Alcohol 120%
uninstalled, the files capture fine.

Though I don't have Alcohol 120% on my SP2 laptop, so I am still trying to
figure out why it has the same exact issue on it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8bd6-8bf4bd3130b9&displaylang=en&Hash=8FFNB4F

Here is a download fix from Microsoft that helped some people, but had
nothing to do with my issue. But it's a good fix anyways because MS was lame
and slowed down the firewire port with SP2. Read it.