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This can not stand. I posted something like this is rec.video, and I
know it's not completely ok to repost like this, but I'm googled out.

I can't believe I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker and WMF files.


I have a Toshiba a70 laptop and a Canon Optura 50 connected by a
firewire PC card. The card is a StarTech, pretty cheapo but I can
capture using Windows Movie Maker. The display controller on the laptop
is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP with 64MB DDR video memory shared video
memory. The Toshiba has .5G memory, and the drive is 2400, and like I
said, Windows Movie Maker does the capture fine. I just feel a bit
rankled by the WMF limitations. Plus, I'd like to know just *why*?

I've tried Ulead and WinDVD but both fail to capture. They seem to
recognize the camera:

WinDVD names the camera as Canon DV device, and Ulead Video Studio sees
it as a MS DV device.

Windows Device Manager gives the driver as ks.sys.

Any idea? Since I can capture in Movie Maker, it can't be a problem in
the hardware config. What though?

Drives me nuts.

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Jim Dent wrote:
> This can not stand. I posted something like this is rec.video, and I
> know it's not completely ok to repost like this, but I'm googled out.
>
> I can't believe I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker and WMF files.
>
>
> I have a Toshiba a70 laptop and a Canon Optura 50 connected by a
> firewire PC card. The card is a StarTech, pretty cheapo but I can
> capture using Windows Movie Maker. The display controller on the laptop
> is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP with 64MB DDR video memory shared video
> memory. The Toshiba has .5G memory, and the drive is 2400, and like I
> said, Windows Movie Maker does the capture fine. I just feel a bit
> rankled by the WMF limitations. Plus, I'd like to know just *why*?
>
> I've tried Ulead and WinDVD but both fail to capture. They seem to
> recognize the camera:
>
> WinDVD names the camera as Canon DV device, and Ulead Video Studio sees
> it as a MS DV device.
>
> Windows Device Manager gives the driver as ks.sys.
>
> Any idea? Since I can capture in Movie Maker, it can't be a problem in
> the hardware config. What though?
>
> Drives me nuts.
>
>
>

Try downloading the demo of scenalayzer
http://www.scenalyzer.com/

Good capture app. If your rig won't work with this, then, I dunno what
the heck.

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Ha. Scenalyzer works.

Except I can't index.

I've tried a number of capture applications and not *one* gives decent
error messages.

What is going on? Infant industry? Or is it difficult to know that you
are not receiving anything from the capture device.

I doubt that. There must be someway of monitoring the stream and making
a guess at the cause of no-stream. A well-coded program has fine-tuned
error reporting. Why is it that I'm finding a lot of really really bad
programming in this capturing business. I've tried a *lot* of programs.

Not one seems to think it possible that something could go wrong. As a
professional programmer that is, to me, the hallmark of an amateur.







RS <mail@mail.com> wrote in news:43203d75$1_1@newspeer2.tds.net:

> Jim Dent wrote:
>> This can not stand. I posted something like this is rec.video, and I
>> know it's not completely ok to repost like this, but I'm googled out.
>>
>> I can't believe I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker and WMF files.
>>
>>
>> I have a Toshiba a70 laptop and a Canon Optura 50 connected by a
>> firewire PC card. The card is a StarTech, pretty cheapo but I can
>> capture using Windows Movie Maker. The display controller on the
>> laptop is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP with 64MB DDR video memory
>> shared video memory. The Toshiba has .5G memory, and the drive is
>> 2400, and like I said, Windows Movie Maker does the capture fine. I
>> just feel a bit rankled by the WMF limitations. Plus, I'd like to
>> know just *why*?
>>
>> I've tried Ulead and WinDVD but both fail to capture. They seem to
>> recognize the camera:
>>
>> WinDVD names the camera as Canon DV device, and Ulead Video Studio
>> sees it as a MS DV device.
>>
>> Windows Device Manager gives the driver as ks.sys.
>>
>> Any idea? Since I can capture in Movie Maker, it can't be a problem
>> in the hardware config. What though?
>>
>> Drives me nuts.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try downloading the demo of scenalayzer
> http://www.scenalyzer.com/
>
> Good capture app. If your rig won't work with this, then, I dunno what
> the heck.
>
>