VideoStudio 8 - stops recording after 10-20 minutes...

[Xodmoe]

...all by itself.

I'd been using VideoStudio 8 without any problems for just under four months. Then about three weeks ago, I started losing my recordings. ...no error messages at all.

The PC that I'm running UVS on has a 200 GB HDD with more than 100 GB free space remaining.

...ever hear of anything like this?

[Ron P.]

How and what are you capturing with? Did you perhaps set a duration to capture as shown in this image?

[Xodmoe]

Yikes.

Thank you for getting back to me as fast as you did. ...and you're obviously quite knowledgeable (sp?) about UVS.

The duration was set to 00:00:00:00, and has been so for the past 5 months. Again, only in the past three weeks have my recordings been interrupted.

My OS is Windows Media Center and on the hardware side, I'm using a Canopus ADVC300 to capture from my cable box to a local hard disk drive which still has more than 100 GB free space. My cable box is also sending video and audio to another PC which I'm using to monitor my recordings. ...and watch TV without that jitter effect.

-Xodmoe.

[Xodmoe]

Yesterday, I managed to record a two-hour show without incident, so it's sorta hit-and-miss now. It used to be consistent. ...and dependable.

-Xodmoe.

[Ken Berry]

Apart from anything else, VS8 was not rated to work with Window Media Center Edition, so that could be a problem -- even if it worked previously. Some update of MCE could have upset the balance. Only VS10 is fully rated to work with MCE, although VS9 apparently worked for some people, though not everyone by any means.

And what exactly is 'that jitter' you mentioned?

[GeorgeW]

This is long shot, but are you capturing to the same hard drive each time? The reason I ask is that ~20 minutes of dv .avi would be at the 4gb filesize limit of a Fat32 disc...

[Xodmoe]

...and I think I got a good price on VS10. I installed it late last night.

FAT32 - The hard disk drive that I was using with VS8 was formatted to NTFS and still is. The most I ever recorded at once was just over 4 hours, which resulted in this 12.9 GB monstrosity.

It was a good capture though. I think it was the last one I did before it became rather undependable.

That jittery video... When I was using VS8, the preview video was not smooth. It looked as if it were dropping frames. There wasn't anything wrong with the audio or the footage that I captured. This was an issue for me when using VS8 with Media Center AND Windows XP. I never found out why.

I'll put VS10 to the test. Thanks folks.

[Ron P.]

I think you will not be disappointed with VS10+. You can do so much more with it.
Of course you are aware that you can set in the Preferences, to show drop frames while capturing. I always have this option checked. That way if I do get a dropped frame, then I can stop the capture right then, and start investigating as to why it is happening. I believe that the allowable amount of dropped frames is 0 (zero).

Of course if you run into problems, remember where we are..Good Luck