Lost segments during video capture

I know I've got enough horsepower to do the job, but every time I attempt video capture either from the S-video input (Hi8 camcorder)or via Firewire (DV camcorder)I get periodic breaks in the captured data. I'm not losing frames per se, I lose 2-3 second segments of the video stream every 9 to 30 seconds with no repeatable pattern that I can see.
I've tried most of the tips found on various sites, ie. eliminating background tasks and registry fiddling with only some improvement.
I've tried the following software:
Intervideo Winproducer
Intervideo Wincinema
Sonic MyDVD
Arcsoft Showbiz
Any help, ideas welcome.
BTW, thanks to the posters here. I've found solutions to a number of problems and some good ideas in the few days I've been lurking here.

On one of my older systems, I've experienced same problem. It was solved by disabling USB in BIOS (I don't have much explanation for this, maybe a strange driver).
On the other hand, try iuVCR (http://www.iulabs.com they could pay me for advertising :D ), it's the only application I've used, able to capture in divx on the fly without loosing frames (of course it depends on cpu frequency, I have athlon 1ghz, capturing 352x288, but on 2.4ghz 640x480 is ok)
Costin

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