[RayW]

I am trying to capture the video from about 30 video tapes made on an 8 mm camera. The camera is plugged into the "HP TV Tuner and Personal Video Recorder." The capture freezes at random intervals. Sometimes it will run for 5 minutes or so and stop. I then rewind the tape and start over again and it may run for about 30 minutes to an hour. Sometimes I have to try restarting 4 or 5 times before it runs for a reasonable length of time.

My computer is an HP Pavilion zd7180us notebook running with a Pentium 4 at 3.8 ghz and 1gb of RAM.

[james_hardin]

First guess would be the cable between the camcorder and capture device???

If you have access to another one, try that.

[RayW]

I want to thank the Digital Guru for his suggestion. It made me think about how I had the HP TV Tuner and Personal Video Recorder set up. It was plugged into a USB Hub. When I plugged it directly into one of the USB ports on the computer, my problem disappeared.

Another problem also disappeared. Before it took about 5 minutes for the Video Capture screen to display. Now it takes less than a minute. It could still be faster, but that is a big improvement.

[ggrussell]

Thanks for letting us know!