Newbie just getting familiar with tools trying to get my first captures ...
During Preview, Test video capture and Capture video the video stops after 1 to 4 minutes and even after stopping capture including exiting
VirtualDub will not recover in the video panel. Need PC reboot.
Windows XP Pro SP3 Integral Edition
ASUS Motherboard w Intel i3-2100 CPU (4GB RAM)
(started with on-board Intel HD Graphics / HDMI monitor but switched to AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6450 & HDMI)
OS on one HDD and capture files on a different one
Pinnacle 510-USB (composite & S-video and audio inputs) => i.e. "integrated audio/video capture"
Video test source Panasonic DMR-ES16 playing a commercial DVD connected with S-video (but composite output does the same thing) and 2 RCA audio cables.
Feeding my camcorder (CCD-TR940) straight into the Pinnacle or through the ES-16 results in the same thing, i.e. it does not seem to be some embedded copy protection on DVD. I just find it easier to leave the DVD playing while doing the tests rather than fiddling with the tape.
What I learned so far:
- Intel HD graphics (built into motherboard) doesn't agree with
Virtualdub
(I was having playback issues for starters so switched to the PCI video card)
My Windows Device Manager has all devices clear (no yellow ?) in both cases. VirtualDub playback works perfectly now (well as much as I have used it).
- video must be set to preview (overlay doesn't work with this usb device)
- audio playback must be disabled (I didn't have good luck when turning on the volume meter either - well it bounced around so I know audio was input but not sure it was accurate/useful). Enabling audio capture worked fine and the audio is being captured along with the video as evidenced in the subsequent playback. Mostly the audio preview was horrible sounding - even though the capture was fine.
- there must be a video signal present on the selected input when selecting File - Capture AVI. If not I found that the preview screen never displays video (and [F6] capture also fails) even when video is introduced after the preview screen is active/displayed.
- the pinnacle device supports both composite video and S-video inputs - it always defaults to composite video from powerup. To select s-video you need to use the "crossbar thing". Simply run it - select Pinnacle 510-USB Crossbar - click on Open selected crossbar and set input to Video SVideo In. Click on the "gigantic" button to exit the program and run VirtualDub. (I found no difference or use for the "Enumerate the loathed crossbars" button.
I notice that in crossbar thing (select the entry without the word crossbar and open the selected crossbar) or VirtualDub - Video - Capture Filter the same Pinnacle driver interface is called up. If you select the Video Decoder tab - I see that when in the "hung" state that Signal Detected displays 0 and not 1. Before the freeze-up (i.e. on the initial setting of the crossbar to SVideo before running VirtualDub) this value will be 1 as long as there is a video signal present on the crossbar selected interface. As noted above if the signal is not present or the interface is hung this value will be 0 and nothing will be shown in the preview window of VirtualDub.
I used the excellent description on this site
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...-settings.html
to setup my VirtualDub except:
Device - Pinnacle 510-USB (Direct Show)
Video - Preview
Video - Compression -
Huffyuv (tried both single and multi-threaded - when using multi-threaded you actually have to enable multi-threading in the configure options).
Audio - device is selected at bottom as 0 Capture device (i.e. the 510-USB)
Audio - Enable audio capture and disable audio playback and Volume meter
Capture - Timing, I have tried sanlyn's settings, lordsmurf's changes noted and other settings like automatically disable resync when integrated audio/video capture is detected - which I think it is with the Pinnacle USB
Capture - stop conditions => nothing enabled here
In all cases I see the preview screen go fuzzy and lock up after a few minutes.
I have a attached a few screen caps of what VirtualDub looks like when the freeze occurs
I hope you have some suggestions
Thanks
Chuck