TV Capture Cards - 10 - Then Freezes

[David]

Hi,
Running XP and I am unable to get any one of several TV capture cards to
function properly.
MSI & ATI cards all give me the same problem - audio is OK - however, video
perfect for about 10 to 15 frames then video freezes - I have to reboot
computer to get 10 or 15 more frames - if I don't reboot when I close and
reopen capture software I get no audio and blue screen for video only.
When I boot to Windows ME the same cards that will not function under XP
work fine?
I have updated drivers and have tried 3 cards.
Currently I am still messing with MSI TV Anywere & ATI TV Wonder.
Both of these cards have worked on my XP system in the past.
Formatted & reinstalled clean XP - no change?
1 gig memory, AMD 3200 xp - MB is MSI 7021 - RAID (using on board)
Appreciate any suggestions!

 

[Guest]

Windows ME doesnt run the same security as xp does,hence it may allow the
user to do things xp wont,or windows vista,etc...With the ati capture
card,you
need the drivers from ati,then download windows media encoder + its
utilities,
WMCAP lets you view video,as does the encoder (capture audio/video).Both
might be frustrating at first,you need to play with them to get the right
mode
going but its not hard,WMCAP will be the easyist.

 

[David]

Dear Andrew,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my message.
I have all the current drivers and the Windows Encoder installed and I
continue to have the same problem - TV card video only runs for about 10 or
15 frames and then freezes.
I have to restart the computer to get another 10 or 15 frames of video &
audio.
I have installed a program called DScaler and with DScaler the exact same
problem is experienced.
With DScaler I am given an option to reset the capture card and each time I
"reset" the capture card it runs perfectly for only about 10 or 15 frames
and then freezes.
I understand that the DScaler program does not use the capture card driver -
it uses a driver included with the DScaler program.
MSI TV Anywhere, ATI TV Wonder and Hauppauge TV Card all have the same issue
on my machine.
Since I cam able to boot to Windows ME on the same computer (MB, memory,
etc.) it must not be a compatibility issue as far as the "hardware" is
concerned?
It seems to be specific to Windows XP.
I will try anything to try to remedy the problem - poor me no capture for
now!
Thanks!

 

[Bill's News]

Dear Andrew,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my message.
I have all the current drivers and the Windows Encoder
installed and I
continue to have the same problem - TV card video only runs
for about
10 or 15 frames and then freezes.
I have to restart the computer to get another 10 or 15 frames
of
video & audio.
I have installed a program called DScaler and with DScaler the
exact
same problem is experienced.
With DScaler I am given an option to reset the capture card
and each
time I "reset" the capture card it runs perfectly for only
about 10
or 15 frames and then freezes.
I understand that the DScaler program does not use the capture
card
driver - it uses a driver included with the DScaler program.
MSI TV Anywhere, ATI TV Wonder and Hauppauge TV Card all have
the
same issue on my machine.
Since I cam able to boot to Windows ME on the same computer
(MB,
memory, etc.) it must not be a compatibility issue as far as
the
"hardware" is concerned?
It seems to be specific to Windows XP.
I will try anything to try to remedy the problem - poor me no
capture
for now!
Thanks!

I've been running XP (SP-nil, upgraded to SP-1 then 2 as
available) since 2000 and at some point my Hauppauge PCI 250
capture card, which operated properly under WiME and its
predecessors, would often exhibit jerky, delayed video during
capture - which could be resynched by pressing the pause/play
button on the WinTV2K GUI. On a Toshiba P35 laptop, running
preinstalled XP/SP-1 (later SP-2) the same pattern was exhibited
using the Hauppauge USB2 capture device and WinTV2K. The USB2
would also exhibit the same pattern when switched to the older
tower PC.

Recently (late September) I purchased a new PC (AMD 64x dual
core), preinstalled with XP-SP2 and at the same time had the
(Intel dual core) laptop serviced - during which the shop
installed under warranty a new MoBo, Screen, and HDD - with
XP-SP2 preinstalled. Both PCs now FREEZE the WinTV2K video
during capture via USB2 - I no longer have the PCI 250, nor a
slot for it.

The only difference between these machines and their
predecessors is that the factory install of Windows XPHE is from
a recently released SP-2 + fixes compilation, while before they
had been brought to the same level piecemeal. I haven't even
reinstalled all other software which was running on either tower
or laptop, they are doing almost nothing other than e-mail and
video capture/playback currently.

However, to address your issue, in both the old jerky delayed
GUI video and in the now solidly frozen GUI video, which can no
longer be resynched by pause/play, the actual recording is made
completely and error free. It just takes tremendous faith that
it is actually working.

May I ask, have you allowed the capture operation to continue
while the video is frozen? Have you used Windows Task Manager
to observe what the processes might be doing? Here, I can see
that the process is not frozen (the Hauppauge GUI still
increments the capture time though the only other GUI button
still operable is STOP).