Dropping frames fast: Need help ASAP

Dezine wrote on 10/30/2004, 5:19 PM

Ok, I'm sorry to bring this up again as I know it has been discussed at length, but I have tried everything and I am still dropping frames a a fast rate in Vegas Capture. I'm trying to capture Analog VHS tape and convert to digital, which I have done, many times on my old computer.

I have a new system that had service pack2 loaded fresh a Asus
P4P800 E Deluxe motherboard,
Gigabyte FX 5900 XT Videocard
M-Audio Revolution 5.1 Sound Card
2 GB PC-3200 Crucial Ram
Intel P4 3.4 HT Processor
ADVC100 Converter box
JVC SR-VS30 MiniDV/SVHS deck
80 GB WD IDE drive
2 x 250 GB WD SATA drives

No adware on this system and virus clean
Hard disks are NTFS/DMA enabled
Indexing turned off on all drives and drives are not compressed
Fresh defragged disks
Capturing to (F) non boot drive
Networking is off and network connection disabled
All background programs are off, including antivirus and firewall
Pwersave is set to never
The only thing that I can't seem to disable in the Widows security dialog box wscntfy.exe
I am capturing to through the ASUS firewire port, would a seperate firewire card make a difference?
There does seem to be some noise high pitch noise comming through my M-Audio speakers when capturing and I can hear some clicking in teh audio from time to time that is not present in the video.

Thanks any haelp would be greatly needed and appreciated.

MLiebergot
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Liam_Vegas wrote on 10/30/2004, 5:40 PM

I have a nearly identical motherborad and I had to utilize a PCI firewire card. The internal one caused dropped frames - and the cost of a PCI card was so cheap - that it was a no-brainer.

johnmeyer wrote on 10/30/2004, 5:47 PM

Open the System applet in the Control Panel. Click on the Hardware tab and then Device Manager button. Look for IEEE 1394 Bus Controllers (or something similar). Click on the "+" to expand that branch. Is there more than one controller? If so, you may need to disable one of the cards. My video card also included a 1394 capability and it interfered with the one on my VIA motherboard.

Have you tried capturing on each of the hard drives? Does this happen on each drive?

You've tried most of the obvious things. Perhaps you'll find some ideas here:

Dropped frame FAQ

Dezine wrote on 10/31/2004, 4:34 AM

Thanks for the feedback all.
The onboard firewire is a VIA OHCI Firewire and there is currently no other firewire onboard.
I think i might just go out and get a PCI firewire card, since they are so cheap.

Thanks again,
MLiebergot

TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/31/2004, 6:23 AM

so you're using a Analog - Digital converter for the VHS capture? If so, does it drop frames when you capture from a digital video camera? Can you capture analog from another source and still get dropped frames (that would signify eigther the tape or VHR is having slight problems)

The clicking MAY be the HD. At work we had some wierd clicking in the audio (it's an all audio setup). I spent 3 weeks trying to figure it out (AC hum, the lights, monitor.. .something). Ends up that when the HD would "click" it would be put into the recorded audio as a click.

I also get high pitched noise when I capture VHS (but not Hi8 or anything else analog). I just use Noise Reduction to eliminate it.

Dezine wrote on 10/31/2004, 9:34 AM

This was from another forum:
"As for device conflicts, you might have an IRQ conflict with the firewire port causing you problems. The conflict could be with any IRQ device, not just another firewire card.

You might want to see if a third party capture program gives the same results. I haven't used it, but have seen Scenealyzer recommended. Also, if you are using Win XP, try doing a capture with Movie Maker and seeing if it drops frames."

I tried the demo version of ScenealyzerLive and got alot of dropped frames as well. So it's not just Vegas it seems.

How would I check all of my IRQ setting for conflicts?

Thanks,
MLiebergot
LVProductions

nickle wrote on 10/31/2004, 10:03 AM

Start/run/type in msinfo32/OK and then there will be a wealth of confusing information to look at.
Try "forced hardware" and "conflicts/sharing".
There will be a list of items in there that CAN share resouces without any problems. That is where it gets confusing.

Under device manager did you see any exclamation marks? Or red "x's"?

Dezine wrote on 10/31/2004, 12:56 PM

No, no explanation marks. Just a question mark under other devices/ multimedia audio controller.

MLiebergot

nickle wrote on 10/31/2004, 1:33 PM

Then something audio is not installed properly, or it could be a usb device that is no longer plugged in. Remove it and reboot and if it is recognized (installed) windows will ask for drivers for it.