Capturing from USB

[Ferder]

Recently, my computer had not been able to handle capturing video from either by digital or anolog camera from a USB connection (I don't have a firewire). My anolog camera (using a Dazzle converter with that plugs in with USB) works as long as I encode with MPEG, but has stopped working for AVI (it uploads at about 5 frames per second, dropping hundreds and hundreds of frames. it didn't do this before.)
When I try to capture from my digital camera (using the USB connection it came with) I have the same problem with the anolog when using AVI codec, and if I try MPEG, even with the quality settting as long as I can get it, the video doesn't upload smoothly.
I have a windows XP and the programs I have been using for capturing are
MGI Video wave 4
and Showbiz DVD 2.

One other problem I have, is that when I use the Dazzle connector to capture from a VCR, though the video plays smoothly, the sound becomes progressivly out of sync.

Thanks for your help
Ferder

[setarip_old]

Sounds like your connection is USB 1.1 - if possible, you should upgrade to USB 2.0

Also, you might try using (freeware) VirtualVCR...

[Ferder]

Virtual VCR seems to be working better than what i was using before, but there are still lots of frames being dropped.

I did a check under my device manager to see if I had USB 2.0

There it listed four Universeral Serial Bus connectors,
one "USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controler"
and three that said
"USB Universal Host Controler"

I have six places for USB devices to plug into. Does this mean that only one or two of them aer USB 2.0 while the rest are just USB 1.0?

[bb]

This does not appear to be a DV topic - moving to "Capturing Video".

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[grannyGeek]

Ferder, did you get it working yet?
I use a Dazzle DVC90 USB2, and I wonder if your problem is that your USB controller card is not powerful enough.

I'm new to this forum, but I participate on the Pinnacle Studio forum, and I posted this thread USB Capture – Troubleshooting Suggestions (http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_messages.asp?WebboardID=1&ForumID=1112&SectionID=227&ThreadID=272441&ThreadStart=0&Pos=7&cntThread=482&lng=1), it includes a link to another thread about installing new USB controller cards to solve bad capture problems.

Hope this helps.

(I couldn't reply last week, because of the five-day waiting period for new forum members, sorry)