Video capture problem

Hi, I'm using a 1 TB External LaCie HDD. I want to capture video from MiniDV tapes through a DV Deck, directly on to the LaCie.
The problem is, my Mac Mini has only one Firewire 400 port & the Lacie also has only one Firewire 400 port (it has two Firewire 800 ports though). Additionally, the DV Deck I'm using only has a 4-pin Firewire port.
Please advise how I can make this configuration work.

You could daisy chain the DV deck to the LaCie HD to your Mac Mini: use a FW400 to FW800 cable to connect one FW800 port of the HD to the FW400 port of your Mac, and use a 4pin to 6pin FW400 cable to connect the DV deck to the only FW400 port of the HD.
This assumes that the DV deck works when daisy chained with the LaCie; in theory it should, but there are some devices (e.g. some Canon cameras) that are known to misbehave in such configuration. This might not be a problem for you: if you get the cables you need you may just try and see the results.
Piero

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Ok i just bought a MSI GeForce4 Ti4200-VTD8X, Wich got Tv_Out + Video_in
With the card i got a Tv_out/Video_in connecter to plug in the card, now the problem seems to come, i plug my S-video cable behind my Tv_out/Video_in connecter (wich of course is connectet to my graphics adapter) and the other end of the S-video cable into a SCART Adapter wich i plug into the scart output on my VCR, but when i start any video capture software, it just says no device connectet plz HELP me! :(

Never mind, got it working all by myself now

Ti4800SE-VTD8X & WDM video capture problem...

sheeesh... I did everything I know to solve the problem... I read every thread on this help forum having the word "WDM" using the search engine and also on other webpages and forums. I can see that I am not the only one having problem with the WDM drivers
Can anyone help me with this ?( :
The WDM driver fails to load and make my system boot up time to around 45 seconds to 1 minute which is normally booting in less than 18 seconds without the WDM driver installed. In the "Device Manager", I see a nice lil " ! " on the "nVidia WDM Video Capture (Universal)" codec.
Here is what I did to date :
1) I had an MSI Ti4200-VTD8X on a different setup computer and had the same problem. I changed my 250 power supply to a 350 watts as I read it might solve some problem but it did not.
2) I exchanged the Ti4200 for a brand new MSI GeForce4 Ti4800SE-VTD8X (MS-8900) and STILL have the same problem
3) I completely change my "old" P4 1.8 to a brand new setup (see at bottom) AND STILL have the same problem.
4) Why did I buy an nVidia product instead of ATI ? dunno...
5) I have tried to uninstall, reinstall, uninstall, reinstall, uninstall, reinstall... huh ? ?( oh yeah, the nVidia WDM drivers 1.21 and 1.22 still doesn't work. I even tried old WDM drivers as some said solved their problem. Installed 1.04, still the same problem.
6) I have tried the WDM from MSI (was happy to see a newer version 1.27) and disaster 8o computer crash with a nice blue screen and reset itself as soon XP loads this famous WDM driver during boot sequence. Had to start in safe mode using the last known working version... At least, that worked...
7) The only way I can make this crappy driver to works (and that is at 50%) is this way
a) in the device manage, I right clic the faulty codec (that XP kindly took the time to open for me to show me that this is not working...) and go to "update the driver"
b) then I click "install from a specified location"
c) then I click "do not search, I will chose the driver to install"
d) then I can see "nVidia WDM Video Capture (Universal)" in the list so I click on it
e) click "next" button
f) XP reinstall the driver withtout the " ! " once I go back in the "Device Manager".
The only thing with that is that it is unstable. Sometimes it might work for 1 hour, sometimes 10 minutes. What it does is it completely crash the application which is using the WDM, for instance InterVideo WinProducer. And here is the kind and gentle warning message box from XP saying : "InterVideo WinProducer has to shut down. We are sorry blah blah blah blah..." and of course you lose any recordings you were capturing or working on...
If I reboot the system, the codec is once again not loaded properly.
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Thank you ! :D

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Originally posted by TheDanishGuy
Hey Alesis
TvTool is a program/tool that help you, with TV-out on you GeForce 4.
For more information on TvTool look at this webpage.
http://tvtool.info/index_e.htm
Try and download demo version, and see if you have use for it. I would like to use it, when I want, to watch DVD on my TV.
So now we need MSI or nVidia to make a WDM driver that works with nVidia VGA 44.03 driver.
Thanks man !
I have tried the TV Tool and quite frankly, I don't really like it... For the moment that is... It messed up a little the video settings like resolution and refresh rate. I have had numerous errors also saying to update to the latest version but you already told me about that.
I have noticed something with 41.07 driver that I lost a nice feature that might interest you ! In fact, with this feature, I think you would not need the TV Tool.
I had the option before to maxize the TV out to full screen when the DVD player started or when I watched any video format.
I can have the Windows Media Player (using nVidia nDVD for DVD) running minimized on my main VGA monitor and get the S-Video out run full screen which was really nice. Sadly, this option looks to be nowhere to find with the Detonator 41.07 version. :(
I don't know if there will be a serious revision about the newest Detonator drivers so it can support our card with full features like the full screen one...
When you fix a problem, there is a new one that come out :O
If you get any hint on how to complaint at MSI or nVidia, it would be great to let them know that something has changed since the v.41.07 that makes a lot of nVidia users having problems with the WDM issue.
Thanks again, at least, I can capture some video ! But not able to watch it full screen anymore on the TV out
Let's keep in touch !
See ya !

For all people with video capture problem

For all people who have trouble with video capture here is the Link

thnx rus,
I had no problems with ViVo, but this file is tiny.
No frills, just what it's meant to do..
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[GeForceFX] FX5600XT-VTDR128 Video capture problem

I am trying to find out if anyone has been able to get the capture (WDM) driver successfully installed for MSI FX5600XT on XP/SP2.
I tried both the MSI & NVIDIA drivers, but always get a message saying "Cannot start device code 10".
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should I try an older WDM driver ?
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Picture / Video capturing problem with Nokia 5233

Hi All,
I am facing a problem when I capture a picture/video with my new Nokia 5233 phone I bought yesterday.
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2. I reboot the phone. But I face the same problem. I face the same problem while capturing pictures.
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Not another video capture problem

I know people are sick of hearing about problems with capturing video, but my problem is an easy fix I think.
I have 2 computers: Powerbook G4 and a Macbook Pro, and my old powerbook can detect my cam for capturing, but my macbook pro won't. Both have the same exact FCP software and I'm using the same 9 pin firewire 800 cord for both. my vid cam is a cannon GL1.
So I'm guessing its gotta be a quicktime problem?

Yes, I've tried firewire basic. There's gotta be a way to fix it without having to buy a firewire card.
Get another (non canon) camera or remove the external drive and capture directly to your internal.
x

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Hi....Can someone help me please..Im using MacBook Pro late 2011 model, OSX 10.9.4, 16 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD Free space. Having problem to capture my footage from my Panasonic 102B (miniDVTape) camera. Only i sight camera appear in i movie or FCP X. What should I do?
Thanks.

Thanks Russ...tested my camera with another Mac and its working ...also tested my firewire port by connecting it with a protable HDD its work too..
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Go to the device manager and open the IEEE 1395 Bus host controllers. It probably has some manufacture device drive listed. Right click and select update driver software, then select browse my computer and install drivers manually. You should get a selection of drivers. Select OHCI compliment host controller (legacy) and this will install, cause a re-start and should then render the capture device fully working.
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Thanks for the reply, I will look into your ideas. I don't have screen saver on and no Nero, iTunes was downloaded with Quicktime and I beleive Win7 uses Roxio, I will check these out.
I put the hard drive docking station back on the XP windows quad core computer, the project was edited on this machine.
Encore burned the dvd complete EXCEPT now no sound, only the menu sound. When I play the timeline there's no sound. This seems to happen when I make a change in PPRO and then go back to Encore. I then export the audio from PPRO and bring it into Encore as an asset, drop it on audio 2 and then all is fine. I did that just now and still hear no audio. I've been using Encore for a year and no troubles. Glad I make the SD dvds 1st before the HD so I don't waste blu ray discs.
My win7 computer is a Dell with Win7 Ultimate, 12 GB ram, i7 920 processor, 1TB C drive and I use external drives to edit on in a docking bay with esata cable.

This is the strangest video capture problem I have ever seen!

Background: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8362257#8362257
Problem: No preview in FCP or iMovie but controls work
Solution: have the tape running first!
This is nuts Can anyone explain the technology (or lack thereof) behind this one. I almost lost my mind until I found the referenced post. Thank buddha for Apple discussions!
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Problem in video capture at server and fetching by client

hi
I am doing final year project it has server at one end which is connected to video capturing device-webcam in my case
and the client is mobile.
I want the live video captured be transmitted to the mobile client on fetch video request.
I have tried implementing it but facing some problems so would like to know the reason behing and also ask if the way i am following is correct or not
At server end i tried to extract frame as follows:
//the datasource handler class is as follows
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also
i am trying to convert the frame fetched to jpeg and at client , tried making use of jpeg image property by detecting the img start and end by reading the image data in bytes from the inputstream (0xffd8 as strt of image and 0xffd9 as end)
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                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
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                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xD8;
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                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
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                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xD9;
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                                repaint();
                                System.out.println("Image drawn");
                            else
                                System.out.println("Image is null");
                                /*try
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                            ctr = 0; // ctr back to zero for the new image
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                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)0xFF;
                            ctr++;
                            img_data[ctr] = (byte)data;
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I have very little time left to complete this project as deadline is very close
please would be very grateful if guided timely.

equator07 wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
i saw in recent posts some protocols had been made use of like rtp i am not making use of any of these
will it effect?I can see that you're not using RTP... and "will it effect?" doesn't make any sense AT ALL...
is the way i have made use of jmf correct?There's no correct way to use an API... but no, you're not doing things in even remotely a "tradional" way...
*like the way i am extracting the frame,
and how can i set the resolution of the video taken by cam and adjust the frame rate?*I have no idea if your code works. I assume that you would have tested it, and proved it to either be producing a valid JPEG image or not. If you've not done that testing, then you obviously need to.
because i want live video to be seen at client end i am seriously confused and the progress as just come to an hault at this point and am in real need of guidance.You should probably be using RTP and the tradional way of using JMF then...
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10930286#10930286]
Read through all of the links I gave the person on the above thread and you'll be on a lot better footing as far as using JMF goes.
shall i send the server side code.Till now server and client are both on local host.No, I don't need to see any more of your code. I'm not a proof reader, and I'm not going to debug it for you. Do you own work.

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log:
Tue May 05 2009 14:26:54 : Selected video input device: Beholder A/V Capture (SAA7135) [Slot 2]
Tue May 05 2009 14:26:54 : Selected audio input device: Beholder Aud Capture (SAA7135)
Tue May 05 2009 14:26:55 : Problem with video capture device. Please verify that the video capture device is working correctly and is not already in use.
Tue May 05 2009 14:26:56 : Audio Device Error : The selected audio device "Beholder Aud Capture (SAA7135)" doesn't allow setting volume intensity. Disabling the volume slider control.
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