Re: Lost frames, or what else?

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Andrea Giuliano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dan,
>
> thanks for your kind answer. So you think it could be a problem with the
> firewire card. I have another one, so I could try that instead. I must
> also say that the 6pin plug of the Canopus is not working anymore except
> for the power. I must use the other 4pin plug for capturing, and the
> 6pin one for powering on the device. I strongly hope it's not damaged, I
> bought it just a couple of months ago and it was quite expensive, at
> least for me!

You should test the Canopus and cable on another computer - yours,
friend's, or family's - does not matter which OS.

> Indeed, I couldn't say whether the two thing are linked some how.
>
> Best regards.
>
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 10:30 -0700, Dan Dennedy wrote:
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Andrea Giuliano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm pretty new to this list, but I swear I have been looking around for
>> > days before asking my question here. So I hope it's not that trivial.
>> >
>> > I'm grabbing old tapes, both VHS and 8mm, using a Canopus ADVC 110
>> > converter. I did it many times in the last few months, but know I have a
>> > brand new PC equipped with an Athlon X4, and now I have serious
>> > problems.
>> >
>> > Whatever is the command for grabbing, kino or dvgrab, even in single
>> > user mode with nice -19, I got DV files which clearly show sudden jumps
>> > of scene.
>> >
>> > Wait a second: I don't speak english as my native language, so I have to
>> > explain some how what I mean. I don't mean lost frames, because kino
>> > ends the capture with zero dropped frame. I just mean that when I watch
>> > the resulting DV files, with kino o mplayer or whatelse, quite often I
>> > see (and hear) something that otherwise I would considere the effect of
>> > some lost frames.
>> >
>> > This happened sometimes with my old computer, which was a P4 at 2,4GhZ,
>> > monocore (at least 7 years old). But with this new PC I simply cannot
>> > get good captures any more.
>> >
>> > What could the problem be?
>> >
>> > 1) The Canopus has some problems?
>>
>> doubtful
>>
>> > 2) The firewire card is not working well with my new motherboard?
>>
>> quite likely it is something with FireWire hardware or drivers. Get
>> the model of your FireWire controller and ask on the linux1394-user
>> mailing list:
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux1394-user
>>
>> > 3) Multi core can cause problems someway?
>>
>> no
>>
>> > I'm running Lenny with the default kernel. I only had compiled
>> > alsa-driver because my audio card (NVidia MCP61 with VIA coded) is not
>> > supported by the alsa-driver 1.0.17, the default on Lenny.
>> >
>> > Any hint would be very much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Best regards.
>> > --
>> > Andrea Giuliano <[email protected]>
>> >
> --
> Andrea Giuliano <[email protected]>
>



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