Hello everyone.

I'm new on this forum and a amature at video capture and at hardware lingo. I apologise if I have missed a similar thread on this.

Thought I was doin' OK then stuff went down hill.

My story...

I bought Adaptec's AVC-2200 capture device about 18 months ago. It came with Sonic MyDVD 4.0.2 software, which I have patched with the 4.0.4.

I had an Intel board with a Pentium 4 1.7, 384 SDram, NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 video card and a 80 GB hard drive. Runnin' XP

Worked fine for awhile, then the outta sync problems came. This happened even before SP2 was installed.

Couldn't figure it out. No help from Adaptec or Sonic.

Decided to reformat. Added SP2 while I was at it.Thought I had the problem whipped.

Again, it worked fine for awhile, then the outta sync problems returned.

Some told me to up the ram.

Added another 512 of SDram. NO GOOD
Borrowed a better video card. NO GOOD.

So now I upgraded to a Gigabyte board(GA 7N400S-L) with an AMD Athalon 2.1, 512 DDram and same video card(NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400).

NO GOOD

And at times I will get lucky and get a whole capture in without the gliches. 75% of time it glitches.

I'm at my witts end here. I mean the darn thing worked FINE at first!

I thought, WOW, is it really this easy? It's almost like it was programed that way. To work fine at 1st (on a virgin install) then start gliching. It seemed to gradually became unstable.

I'm just transferring VHS tapes to DVD. The project I'm trying to get done is with no editing. Transfering junior high school football games to DVD.

I'd like to get some SOLID advice on what works and what doesn't.

I've spent money on things already that haven't worked

I've been bangin' my head with this for over 3 months now

Any help would be VERY MUCH appreciated

Wile E

Before starting the capture make sure other programs are not running. Also make sure other resource hog processes or services are not runnin in the background. Leave your system alone while capturing, I mean don't run other application, don't even touch the mouse, leave it alone.

Make sure you've got more than needed diskspace. If possible use a separate hardrive for capturing. Make sure your capture files are not fragmented.

Does the sync problem occur when you capture to other formats like MPEG1.

If you're capturing from DVs and mini-DVs avoid realtime encoding while capturing. First capture to DV quality and then start encoding.

Sometime, video gets captured and encoded well, but out of sync occurs while playback, only on your pc. So test the newly created DVD in home DVD player or another PC.

Out of sync might occur only in the newly burned DVD, so test the encoded file before burning, see if sync occurs.

Try with another authoring program and see if outta sync occurs.

When you say "outta sync", I'm assumin the encoded video has audio-video sync problems. Instead, If the programs shows any error message like "Out of Sync", I don't know much. Maybe the VHS is the problem.

Plzz post back.

Before starting the capture make sure other programs are not running. Also make sure other resource hog processes or services are not runnin in the background. Leave your system alone while capturing, I mean don't run other application, don't even touch the mouse, leave it alone.

Already doing that NO GOOD

Make sure you've got more than needed diskspace. If possible use a separate hardrive for capturing. Make sure your capture files are not fragmented.

Got plenty of space NO GOOD

Does the sync problem occur when you capture to other formats like MPEG1.

Haven't tried this yet. Will this effect the quality of the finished DVD?

If you're capturing from DVs and mini-DVs avoid realtime encoding while capturing. First capture to DV quality and then start encoding.

Never done it yet. I don't own one. As of now, strictly VHS.

Sometime, video gets captured and encoded well, but out of sync occurs while playback, only on your pc. So test the newly created DVD in home DVD player or another PC.

Out of sync might occur only in the newly burned DVD, so test the encoded file before burning, see if sync occurs.

I noticed that EVERY glich i see in the preview window WILL show up in the mpeg file when rendered and therefore, in the DVD

Try with another authoring program and see if outta sync occurs.

Tried that but the program I used didn't support Adaptec's capture device. Again, I'm not particularly fond of spending money on a "HOPE" that it will fix the problem

When you say "outta sync", I'm assumin the encoded video has audio-video sync problems.

That is correct. Audio & video outta sync. I have noticed on a couple occasions that it will be in a slow motion stutter. Video will be slow, then speed up, then slow, all the while the audio goes on with out a glitch.

Also, I am using USB 2 from capture to PC and RCA from VCR to Capture


CuratoR,

I would like to thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. I really appreciate it. Right now, ANY insight is welcome. As of now I'm backing up so I can reformat again in hopes that that will, (like in the past) give me the ability to capture remaining clips off the VHS tapes to finish this project.

Wile E

Have you been here:

http://ask.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=vREHrMzh&p_lva=&p_faqid=9380&p_created=1057781343&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9OTImc F9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MiZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj03JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=

Have you tried the ShowBiz solution?

For me, most of the time the sync problem occurs only while playback on some software player/dvd-drives. I check the file, check the DVD and make sure all is OK, and some people complain about sync problems. I test it on my system, runs fine, no sync problem.
And sometimes I have sync problem if I enable realtime encoding while capturing to MPEG2(DVD format).
Haven't tried this yet. Will this effect the quality of the finished DVD?
MPEG1 is not DVD quality, so you can't use it as DVD format. DVD needs MPEG2. MPEG1 is used for VCD and SVCD

Whyzman has pointed you to the right direction. Plzzz follow that link and see if your problem gets sorted out.

Have you been here:

http://ask.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=vREHrMzh&p_lva=&p_faqid=9380&p_created=1057781343&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9OTImc F9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MiZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj03JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=

Have you tried the ShowBiz solution?


Thanks Whyzman but I've, been there too. NO GOOD

This problem occurs DURING capture. It is viewable in the preview window DURING capture.

EVERYTHING that is visible in the capture window( be it good or bad) WILL be in the MPG2 when rendered and therefore also in the finished DVD

I don't understand why it worked FINE at first and NOW it is not.

I've been told to shut everything down that's not needed to free up CPU.

Interesting that I didn't shut ANYTHING down the first time and had NO problems.

Now, out of the blue, there's problems. What's up with that????

The only change I can see is that I'm using up space on the hard drive with the MPG2's. Why would that be a problem????

Seems that with a lot of things I'm been reading, the problem I'm having should be happening from the very begining. It didn't.

It WORKED FINE FROM THE START. Now it isn't

WHY??????? http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/confused.gif http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/confused.gif http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/confused.gif

I haven't changed anything...except for upgrading to DDR and a faster CPU

Again, I want to thank you all for your efforts to help. Gotta another tip, let me know http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/wink.gif

Wile E

Any software you might have added??

You might want to try this to see if you can isolate:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310353

"Why would that be a problem????"
Well, it depends. Perhaps this is a performance problem.
1. If your C: partition was packed full, you'd have no space for the swap file.
2. If your C: partition was HUGE, and filling up with data files [bloat], then the programs would have so much junk underfoot, and the file allocation table [or whatever] would have so much listed that the programs might have difficulty finding things quickly enough. Keep your C: partition "lean & mean". Move all the data files off there. Move your swap file to a 2nd physical HDD [it can then be accessed concurrently with the drive holding the C: partition] and make it of fixed size [no processor power used to calculate the size needed].
3. Is your OS configured to use PIO when it should be using DMA?
4. Is your OS configured to use high resolution and lots of colours? Back off on those and see what happens.
5. What %CPU usage while this is happening? I use "TclockEx" to constantly display that in the System Tray. Try running "System Monitor" to study performance during this activity.