Need help on mini DV video capture through IEEE1394.

leosalchemist

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I was using Pinnacle Studio DV. Just replaced the firewire card coming in the Pinnacle package with a generic one.
The symptom is that it captures about 5 second video then start dropping frames. I have to restart the computer to get another 5 second. Is there a way to get around? Or I have to stick to the Pinnacle card.

THX.:(
 

Liviathan

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I had the same problems until I got a program called MemTurbo and released lots of memory before I started capturing.
Also make sure nothing is else is running.

What are your specs??
 

Yoshi

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Why did you replace your card in the first place if everything was working OK?
 

leosalchemist

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Liviathan,

Thanks for the info. Where did you get MemTurbo?

Specs are: P 4 1.6GHz, 384MB PC133 RAM(Too slow? too small?), 16MB Video Ram(Does it matter?), 7200RPM ATA/100 Harddrive. It's a dell 4300. I bought it for video editting. But it's not doing a great job. :(

Yoshi,

I replaced the card because it only had two ports. I need more.
 

Raycomp

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"Specs are: P 4 1.6GHz, 384MB PC133 RAM(Too slow? too small?), 16MB Video Ram(Does it matter?), "

I'm ashamed at Dell. P4's don't run well unless coupled with PC800 RDRAM. A Pentium III 1.2 ghz would do better than a P4 with SDRAM. The 384 MB of RAM is plenty but cripled by the chipset and mem speed. A 64 mb video card would have been nice. A defragged hard drive (other than your boot drive) would greatly help as well.
 

PullMyFinger

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leosalchemist,
Your machine should be able to do video capture just fine, I can do DV capture on a Celeron 850 on a BX (ata33) board. I had a very similar problem with my Dazzle DV Editor card. Problem went away when I enabled DMA for my harddrive, you might want to check your settings and make sure it's enabled for all your drives, not just the harddrive.