Crashed when i hit stop capture

supres · Post by **supres** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:04 pm

I'm using vs9 to capture. When i was recently capturing directly from tv i hit stop capture and vs9 just sat there (like it crashed) i had to "end program now". I have the file i had recorded, it shows it as avi, but i cant get it to play, nor get vs9 to take it, almost like its not a file though its 900 mbs and showing as an avi file. Now my other avi files on windows xp show the picture, this file does not, it just shows the name. I almost think since the program crashes it didnt "close" the file or something? any ideas? i really need to get the recording of this straightened out. thanks guys

van_dros · Post by **van_dros** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:16 pm

I'm having this exact same problem.

Task Manger doesn't even fix it - I'm having to press reset everytime.

It worked once or twice and now this.

Did you find a solution?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:48 pm

No one is going to be able to help you because neither of you have given any information to work on except that you are using VS9 and that your are trying to capture 'directly from TV'.

The latter implies -- though not totally clearly -- that you have a TV capture card in your computer. If that is so, what is the exact make and model of the card? All such cards that I know of come with their own capture software that is tweaked to work specifically with the card, and indeed some cards will ONLY allow capture with that software. We usually recommend that you use that software, rather than VS, for capture, then import the captured video into VS for editing. (I have a Winfast HDTV card and in fact I *prefer* to use the Winfast software for capture from it as it gives me more flexible capture settings -- brightness, contrast, luminance etc -- than VS.)

You also don't tell us what format you are capturing in and what the specific capture properties are...

We also know nothing about your computers or operating systems...