Unable to capture DV-Video in WMV. (starts 3kb and stops)

[Ramond de Vrede]

I'm using 2 PC's. 1 notebook and 1 desktop PC. Both with Windows XP
Professional (Dutch) with all updates (also dx9.0b, mm2, etc...) applied.

I looked in this article :
http://www.eicsoftware.com/pictures/PapaJohn/Website-MM2/MM2.html but cannot
find the solution for me.

I'm unable to install the patch because of the language difference. My
current version of QASF.DLL is 9.0.0.2980.

When I start to capture my video from a Sony DCR-PC120e with FireWire
connection it starts with 3kb and stops... The movie/sound keeps running but
nothing is saved on the harddrive. When I use DV-AVI everything is working
well. Only the size of the file is very huge (as known).

Who can help me so I can save my DV Tapes in a more efficient way?

Thanks in advance!
Ramond de Vrede

 

[Guest]

Capturing at DV-AVI does create a large file but does not compress your video. Since that setting lets you capture video and the others don't, use it. You may need a larger hard drive or work on one video project at a time. Delete unused large files and folders and backup important files, run defrag. These things will free up some disc space. Another posibility is, that with a fragged hard drive, your video is not being captured to disc in a contiguous file sector causing the read/write heads to jump all over the place and you then get a buffer overrun and capture stops. Good luck.
digipix

 

[Ramond de Vrede]

Thanks for the fast answer.

But I don't think it's a disk space issue.

I have on 1 harddrive (7200RPM 8MB cache) 79 GB free and on the other 144 GB
free.

On my notebook I have 18 GB free.

The problem is it doesn't start at all capturing.

When I wait for e.g. 1 minute. Stop the capturing. I see nothing than a
GREEN screen and no sound. The filesize is very small. (not inadequate)

Greetings,
Ramond de Vrede

Capturing at DV-AVI does create a large file but does not compress your

video. Since that setting lets you capture video and the others don't, use
it. You may need a larger hard drive or work on one video project at a
time. Delete unused large files and folders and backup important files, run
defrag. These things will free up some disc space. Another posibility is,
that with a fragged hard drive, your video is not being captured to disc in
a contiguous file sector causing the read/write heads to jump all over the
place and you then get a buffer overrun and capture stops. Good luck.

 

[antony]

I cannot capture at all from DCR-PC100E with firewire.
Can you explain to me how you captured (even in DV-AVI).
Thanks Antony

 

[Ramond de Vrede]

Antony,

I did nothing special... Just connect it by firewire. No additional drivers
downloaded or what so ever. Also no SONY software installed.

Ramond.

(Still having my problem )

I want to capture in WMV.....