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More info?)
Have you read the posts on the matrox forum?
"billmotley" <billmotley@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> After much tweaking, some phone support and a lot of fresh
> reinstallation work, the symptoms are worse now than when first
> installed.
>
> This card was installed with capturing analogue video in mind and that
> is
> all that I have attempted to do. I do not currently have a camera or
> other DV input device that could be used to test DV input.
>
> Premiere Pro 1.5 works fine if the RT.X100 is uninstalled. With the
> card
> installed, simply opening the capture window causes symptoms such as
> mouse jitters, and halting movements when doing a click-&-drag.
> Attempting to capture anything results in a multitude of dropped
> frames.
>
> When the card was first configured there were a few dropped frames
> during
> capture, then the program would generally freeze upon hitting
> "Esc",
> "s", or the stop button. About 1 in 3 attempts to capture 30-minute
> streams were successful enough, with only a few dropped frames per run.
> I could at least piece together a project. Not any longer.
>
> The best capture success was made after removing the Intel Application
> Accelerator in favor of using the native Windows XP Raid Controller.
> One hour of S-Video was captured without dropped frames. While that
> captured stream was conforming to Premiere, I began another capture
> process. Doing this seemed to cause the conform process to freeze. Once
> the 2nd capture process was aborted, the first stream was able to
> finish conforming. From that point on, any attempt to use the capture
> mechanism has resulted in the halting mouse, etc, and eventual freeze
> up of Premiere.
>
> Any ideas, questions, instructions? Welcome.
>
> Bill Motley
>
> DancingOutlaw.com
> billmotley@pobox.com
>
>
>
> Motherboard: Intel PCIe D915PBL , very similar to the Matrox
> recommended D915PCM & D915GEV boards.
> Processor: P4 3.4 GHz, HT enabled
> Memory: 3GB Kingston DDR2
>
> Drives all SATA, all defragmented, all with more than 75% free space,
> DMA Enabled
> System: 74gh 10000 rpm
> AV: RAID 0, 2x250gh, 7500 rpm, XP controlled (No Intel Application
> Accelerator)
> Export: 34gh, 10000 rpm
>
> Sound Card: Creative Blaster Live 24-bit (native card disabled in BIOS)
> Display Card: PCIe nVIDIA G-Force 6200, 128mb, Dual Head (moved to PCI
> Slot 3 from Slot 1 and set as default in BIOS)
> Monitors: 1 VGA, 1 DVI
> Mouse/Keyboard: PS/2
> USB Disabled in BIOS
>
> Installation & update order -
> BIOS updated with Intel's Express Bios Update
> OS: XP Pro SP2 Build 2600, fresh install & updates
> Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
> Capture: RT.X100 Extreme Card (removed hidden files before reinstall) >
> X.tools 6122 > Hotfix2 > PCI Optimizer
>
> Premiere Settings:
> Preset: Matrox DV & DVCAM Standard
> Auto Save: Disabled
> Device Control: None
> Analog Setup: 7.5 IRE
> Always Output to DV-1394: Unchecked
> Input: Consumer/Looser
> Format: Matrox AVI Capture, DV/DVCAM
>