PowerDirector video capture problem

[amaru96]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to this and am having a bit of a problem. I'm using Cyberlink PowerDirector 5 to capture some video from my camcorder. It captures OK and everything works fine, except for some reason it stops capturing at around 7 minute intervals. I don't know why though. It captures 7 minutes worth then stops and asks me to name the file, it then captures 8 minutes....

I have plenty of disk space and have not set any time or size limits. I'm capturing to MPEG-2 format.

Any ideas why it does this?

[nibbles]

Are you using NTFS or FAT32 as your filesystem type? What OS?
Are the filesizes the same?
The capture FAQ might suggest other software to try. List your
hardware next time if you still have problems.

[setarip_old]

@amaru96

Hi!

Check to see if the program has available a size and or time setting...

[amaru96]

Hey guys, it's pretty strange but it seems to have sorted itself out. I can now capture an entire tape......however I have noticed that when I play the MPG through media player it appears choppy - like a second of video has been dropped. Best way I can describe it is like pausing the video camera while recording for a second and then starting again (it happens throughout the entire video) - even though it says 0 dropped frames after capture. It doesn't seem to do this when I capture to AVI though. Problem with that is it doesn't display the datecode on the video.

By the way nibbles, my HDs are formated to FAT32. My PC is running XP SP2 and is a 2GHZ CPU, 1GB RAM and 2HDs totalling 150GB.

The software seems a little buggy as I told it to use a time limit but it kept capturing even after the time had passed.

Might have to try some other software but I don't know of any others that give you the option to add a date/time code onto the video.

[jggimi]

You are experiencing "dropped frames" -- because your computer is unable to keep up with your capture. Why? There can be many reasons, the most likely is that the MPEG-2 encoding your PC is doing cannot cannot keep up with incoming frames in real time. Our FAQ (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=32575) and our Capture Guide (http://www.doom9.org/capture/start.html)will help; you have some reading and experimentation to do.