Hi again
I'm still battling to get my basic setup working.
Windows XP Pro SP3 (32 bit)
Pinnacle 510-USB (from LS)
Crossbar thing (from this site) to select SVideo input
VirtualDub 1.9.11 (from this site)
I have attached a short video of what happens.
It starts to display the video signal initially but then typically fails after a short time (minutes)
Here's what I do ...
Ensure video signal is present at desired video port (SVideo for me)
Run "crossbar thing", select the first entry "Pinnacle 510-USB Crossbar" and "Open selected crossbar" and select SVideo and OK
Select second entry "Pinnacle 510-USB" and "Open selected crossbar" and select "Video Decoder"
At this point I always observe "Signal Detected: 1" select Cancel (or OK) and exit "crossbar thing"
Run
VirtualDub and select capture AVI (Video set to Preview & capture not started) i.e. just "preview" the video
After a short period of time (45 seconds to 4 or 5 minutes) the video "tears" and the display freezes.
Then I can Exit capture mode and VirtualDub
I can go back to the crossbar thing and I always see that the "Pinnacle 510 USB" (second entry in the crossbar thing) Video Decoder now shows Signal Detected: 0
... but of course the signal s still present.
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Same thing happens with AMCap (preview works for a few minutes then video image appears to tear and stop
For some reason I can not get VirtualVCR to work on my machine - it installs but will not run (I've attached a pic of that failure)
My point is that I don't suspect a VirtualDub issue as multiple capture programs do the same thing.
I have an USB HDMI dongle and it never seems to fail - I can capture or preview for hours (obviously I do not need crossbar thing for this) so I think my PC h/w including USB ports are good.
I have tried windows XP home SP2 (fresh install from Microsoft iso) and same result. I prefer the XP SP3 ISO because it does not time out due to inability to any longer activate XP by Microsoft)
The common denominator seems to be
- Pinnacle 510-USB device itself OR
- Pinnacle driver
Can anyone suggest other things to try to help me to narrow down the possible cause of the issue?
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Additional information
Occasionally (without changing anything it will work and I have captured a couple 2 hour tapes without issue - only to come back later and try capturing another tape and have the failure happen a few minutes into the capture).
I can "clear" the problem by "Safely Remove Hardware" for the Pinnacle 510-USB, remove the dongle from the USB port and then plug it in again.
This usually clears the problem and I can do the crossbar thing and run VirtualDub and capture AVI but it will fail again within a few minutes.
Trying different USB ports does not seem to impact the time to failure which is fairly random - but removing the device and plugging it back in appears to be what gets things cleared until I try to preview or capture again. Same for rebooting the PC - everything is cleared but it usually fails again within a few minutes of re-launching a video capture program.
Same failure occurs if I actually "set the capture file" and capture [F6]. (I was simply trying to exclude any possible hard disk write impact).
Thanks
Chuck
