Firewire Video Capture no longer working.

[Guest]

I have a video camera connected to my computer using an IEEE 1394 firewire.
When I try to capture video from my video camera it will only run for about 5
minutes and then the capture program appears to stop. The video camera is
still running but it is no longer capturing the video. I also notice that the
camera doesn't appear to be recognized by the firewire card any longer and
the only way to get it back is to reboot the computer. I have tried a couple
of different capture software and get the same results with both. When the
capturing stops, the capture programs appears to lock up and become
non-responsive. Now this was working and has been working for many months
without any problem. Last week I noticed that a number of Microsoft update
where installed which may have caused the problem. I understand that there
are a number of known issues with XP SP2 and firewire and that there are a
number of hotfixes which are only available by contacting Microsoft support
which solve this problem. However, before I spend the money to open a support
call I want to be sure that it fixes the problem and that the problem wasn't
caused by the updates that were pushed down to my computer

 

[Jonny]

These were mentioned as SP2 firewire fixes on a thread subsequent to your
post:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...07-18b5-4112-8bd6-8bf4bd3130b9&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...37-A0EA-4B34-B19F-B6EC04C1F2D2&displaylang=en

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I have installed the download that is listed in the first link but it
did not fix the problem. I will try the 2nd and see if that is successful.

 

[Jonny]

If that doesn't work, try a disconnect/reconnect of the firewire cable while
not in use.
Another is simply replacing the firewire hardware. Recommend a firewire
card with a TI (Texas Instruments) chipset that's OHCI compliant. Mine's
worked fine with SP1 and SP2. I do the same video stuff that you do here.
Videostudio software and JVC digital camcorder. Works with Millenium
version of windows too.
There's also a tweak for the SP2, SP2 downgrades firewire potential
throughput from 400/800 to 100. Its registry tweak, forgot the details,
sorry.

 

[Guest]

This is the 2nd Firewire card that I have with the 1st one giving me even
more grif. This one has been installed for nearly 2 years with no problems up
until last week. However, I have not done a capture for about month so it
could have happened any time since then.

I installed the 2nd hotifx with no improvement. Actually it seems to be
reacting even worse. Before it was applied I was getting about 5 minutes of
capture before it failed. After I installed it I was only getting about a
minute and it locked the capture program up so hard that I had to hard reboot
the workstation. Processor level increased to 100%. I guess I am going to
have to suffer the pain of MS 1st level support on this one.