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I took my ADVC100 to a friend's place to capture some of his VHS tapes.
He's running WXP SP1 (English) on a P4 2,8 machine, 1GB ram, lots of software installed, DirectX 9.0C.
I used WinDV to capture. At first I tried to capture to type 2, but once the capture is stopped the temporary file you can see (0 bytes) disappears. Type 1 works, here the temp file is replaced by the correct size, but it's not playing, not even in Moviemaker (or whatever that thing is that XP has built-in)
When I try to convert this type 1 file to type 2, this also doesn't work (although the Canopus DV converter can read the type 1 file apparently) - again the type 2 file cannot be created it seems.
Next I tried Moviemaker itself, DVapp, DVcapture and a bunch of other tools. These have the exact same problem - creating a type 2 file doesn't work.
It seems to me his PC has something broken or installed that blocks this. I'm also thinking there may be a patch needed for XP or Direct X, but as a W2K user I'm not that current on XP.
I suggested installing SP2 but he's got some software he says won't work on SP2 so he's not willing to do this.
Any ideas what I can try to get capturing to type 2 working?
Apulo
He's running WXP SP1 (English) on a P4 2,8 machine, 1GB ram, lots of software installed, DirectX 9.0C.
I used WinDV to capture. At first I tried to capture to type 2, but once the capture is stopped the temporary file you can see (0 bytes) disappears. Type 1 works, here the temp file is replaced by the correct size, but it's not playing, not even in Moviemaker (or whatever that thing is that XP has built-in)
When I try to convert this type 1 file to type 2, this also doesn't work (although the Canopus DV converter can read the type 1 file apparently) - again the type 2 file cannot be created it seems.
Next I tried Moviemaker itself, DVapp, DVcapture and a bunch of other tools. These have the exact same problem - creating a type 2 file doesn't work.
It seems to me his PC has something broken or installed that blocks this. I'm also thinking there may be a patch needed for XP or Direct X, but as a W2K user I'm not that current on XP.
I suggested installing SP2 but he's got some software he says won't work on SP2 so he's not willing to do this.
Any ideas what I can try to get capturing to type 2 working?
Apulo
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