Crash everytime I try to start capturing video in VS11

[michelb]

Before Xmas I purchased VS11 and applied the patches I found. I captured about 20 hours of video from my panasonic miniDV camera with no problems. I took a vacation for 3 weeks my computer was unpluged in storage during that time. Since restarting every time I go to the capture tab and select start capture VS11 crashes. I did a reinstall but the problem remains. I can capture using Windows capture app.

I am running Vista ultimate on a Core2 2.4ghz with 2gigs of ram and a 500gbytes hard disk.

[Ken Berry]

One or two of us here are starting to suspect that a rash of 'VS never did it before' complaints like yours may be related to recent Windows/Vista updates. It has become almost a mantra with me over the past couple of months to suggest people first go to the Microsoft DirectX website and download the latest update patch. The current one is dated November 2007 and can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Note that it updates both DirectX 9.0c (XP) and 10 (Vista). The number of your DirectX installation will not change, but the patch gives extra functionality in a number of areas and corrects other faults in VS11 in particular which do appear linked to Windows updates. Perhaps the capture problem may be one of them.

Otherwise, can you confirm you haven't installed any mega codec pack recently?

[2Dogs]

and i wonder how much free space you might have on your hard drive if the 20+ hours of video was captured as DV avi. That would take up over 260GB of the 500GB, so there might be space issues - worth checking.

[michelb]

Thank you,

I was able to fix the problem. I removed some software that was installed after VS11, checked directX and reinstalled everything. Now it works.

Not sure which software was causing the issue but it's all good now. If I get the problem I will try and track it better to provide better feedback.