problems capturing deom DV camera

[Guest]

I am trying to get my Uncle's system goign for movie capture and I am having a few problems.
He has a Sony DV vid camera a Toshiba Laptop (satalitte)A35 S159 512 MB ram 40GB drive 2GHz processor
PCMCIA card for firewire connection
When we connect the camera to the laptop it identifies the camera properly and it will let us know when it is disconnected.
When I run MM2 or another program (Studio 7 I think) the system does way too much thinking and we can never get it to capture or even show any video as it is being played on the camera.
When using MM2 It is started then the cursor stays on an hourglass for about 45 sec to 1 min before it gets to the file naming dialog. I click ok and it then sits for another 1-2 min thinking until it brings up the movie file format dialog. Once I have chosen to go on from that dialog it sits forever thinking and nothing in the application is active but no process is taking up processor bandwidth. Never recovers. I have to close the application.
When using the other capture utility a very similar thing happens where it essentially goes into thinking mode and never allows us to even see the video being played let alone recording it.
I tried turning the video acceleration down...no affect.
I tried looking for a known problem codec but I couldnt find it. I did not search out all the known problem codecs. Could this be caused by a rouge codec?
Where do I go from here?
Thanks for your help in advance. - Mike

 

[Guest]

Title should have read "Problems Capturing from DV camera

 

[Dennis L]

Studio programs like a lot of free graphics mem, Studio does not give you
any hint that you are low on the graphic mem. after I installed a 256meg
card it works very much better.
If a graphics card is out of the question, make sure that all screen
savers, graphics backgrounds and even your anti virus are disabled. This
should help. Dennis L

I am trying to get my Uncle's system goign for movie capture and I am having a few problems.
He has a Sony DV vid camera a Toshiba Laptop (satalitte)A35 S159 512 MB ram 40GB drive 2GHz processor
PCMCIA card for firewire connection
When we connect the camera to the laptop it identifies the camera properly

and it will let us know when it is disconnected.

When I run MM2 or another program (Studio 7 I think) the system does way

too much thinking and we can never get it to capture or even show any video
as it is being played on the camera.

When using MM2 It is started then the cursor stays on an hourglass for

about 45 sec to 1 min before it gets to the file naming dialog. I click ok
and it then sits for another 1-2 min thinking until it brings up the movie
file format dialog. Once I have chosen to go on from that dialog it sits
forever thinking and nothing in the application is active but no process is
taking up processor bandwidth. Never recovers. I have to close the
application.

When using the other capture utility a very similar thing happens where it

essentially goes into thinking mode and never allows us to even see the
video being played let alone recording it.

I tried turning the video acceleration down...no affect.
I tried looking for a known problem codec but I couldnt find it. I did not

search out all the known problem codecs. Could this be caused by a rouge
codec?