Can't capture from DV

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Larry

I have a Sony DCR-TRV22 that I am having problems with and am
wits end. When trying to capture via firewire it just does
nothing. The OS recognizes the camera when plugging it in and
pops up the capture prompt. I can either cancel or try to
capture after opening MM2. If I wait long enough the first
dialog box will appear prompting for filename and location but
after this box it hangs.

I sucessfully captured some video last week and had no problems.
Today I can't make it work. In an effort to get things working
again I updated everything, and I mean everything. All OS
patches, drivers, BIOS and video.

I also have some other capture software. All applications
respond the same way. The provided software from Pixela,
NeroVision and MM2 just hang and you have to kill the process.
It's clearly something with either the OS or hardware since all
apps fail.

The hardware is an AMD 2800, 120G SATA HD, 1G Ram, ATI Radeon
9600. Software is XP Pro SP1, DirectX 9.0b, WMP9 with all
updates with the exception of the .NET framework and journal
viewer for the tablet PC. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
Larry
 
Hi there,

As there is a comprehensive failure of all related software I guess that
there are three possibilities........

1) a piece of hardware has failed.

Can you plug your camera into some other computer to test the camera?
Has your firewire cable failed, can you borrow one?
Has your firewire card failed, Do you have another machine you can plug it
into?
Have you tried removing the firewire card, rebooting, turning it off and
add the card back again?

2) A piece of software has in some manner be altered.

Have you added any software to your system in between the time it worked
well and the time it failed?
Do you have a restore point you can go back to?
Have you changed any settings relating to how XP handles your software?
Is the necessary hardware available to the account you are using?
Have you considered removing all the involved software, rebooting so that
XP realise's what you have done, clean the system of the files left behind
and then re-install the software....see www.papajohn.org for info on what
you can actually do with regard to removing Movie Maker.

3) This is all a bad dream !

You will eventually wake up
 
Hi there,

As there is a comprehensive failure of all related
software I guess that there are three
possibilities........

1) a piece of hardware has failed.

Can you plug your camera into some other computer to
test the camera? Has your firewire cable failed, can
you borrow one? Has your firewire card failed, Do you
have another machine you can plug it into?
Have you tried removing the firewire card, rebooting,
turning it off and add the card back again?
Click to expand...

Although it seems unlikely that the hardware has failed it easy
enough to try this on a different PC. In my experience, hardware
with no moving parts rarely fails.


2) A piece of software has in some manner be altered.

Have you added any software to your system in between
the time it worked well and the time it failed?
Do you have a restore point you can go back to?
Have you changed any settings relating to how XP
handles your software? Is the necessary hardware
available to the account you are using? Have you
considered removing all the involved software,
rebooting so that XP realise's what you have done,
clean the system of the files left behind and then
re-install the software....see www.papajohn.org for
info on what you can actually do with regard to
removing Movie Maker.

3) This is all a bad dream !

You will eventually wake up
Click to expand...


It's worse than a bad dream. After more work this morning it
appears that it's a dll problem. By changing some of the
associated dll's I can change the behaviour of the problem. It
seems like a reinstall is the quickest solution. I can leave the
restore function on until I figure out what causes the problem.
Truth be known I think it's one of the MS patches that screwed
things up.

Larry
 
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