Problems with VS9 Video capture

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I have tried several different video capture programs (WinDV, Ulead VideoStudio 9, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Media Encoder) and I have pretty much the same problem (except see below).

The preview menus are always blank, and when I play the file back I get a blank screen. If I pause the video during playback, I can see the current frame (i.e. if I pause-unpause-pause... I can actually see the captured video) while in VS9, but not when I play the file in WMP10.

I am pretty sure it is a PC setup issue, since I get the same when capturing from a different camera. The camera controls work fine, and I do get sound when playing back the captured file. Not trying to do anything cleaver when capturing, using default settings (DV-1).

With the Windows Media Encoder I generate a 118 MB file for a 30 sec clip. When I play back w/ WMP 10 I get choppy video and good audio, and my CPU usage pegs at 100%.

I am using DirectX 9.0c. No problems when I ran the DirectX diagnostics or broken codecs when I ran Sherlock.

Video Codecs (from GSpot)
DMO WMVA WMVideo Advanced Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmvadvd.dll
DMO MP4S Mpeg4s Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mp4sdmod.dll
DMO WMV Screen decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmsdmod.dll
DMO WMVideo Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmvdmod.dll
DMO MP43 Mpeg43 Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mp43dmod.dll
DMO MPG4 Mpeg4 Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mpg4dmod.dll
DSH DV Video Encoder qdv.dll
DSH MJPEG Compressor quartz.dll
DSH MPEG1 MPEG Video Decoder quartz.dll
DSH WMV1 Windows Media Video Decoder Microsoft Corporation wmvds32.ax
DSH WMV2 Windows Media Video Decoder Microsoft Corporation wmv8ds32.ax
DSH MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Decompressor Microsoft Corporation mpg4ds32.ax
DSH DVSD DV Video Decoder qdv.dll
DSH MSS1 Microsoft Screen Video Decompressor Microsoft Corporation msscds32.ax
DSH MPEG1 Ulead DVD Video decoder 2 Ulead Systems, Inc. ulDVDVideo.ax
DSH MJPG AVI Draw quartz.dll
DSH Video Port Manager quartz.dll
DSH AVI Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH QTRpza QT Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH MJPG MJPEG Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH ATI MPEG Video Decoder ATI Technologies, Inc. atidvcr.dll
VFW CVID Cinepak Codec by Radius Radius Inc. qcap.dll --> iccvid.dll
VFW I420 Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50 Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh263.drv
VFW IV32 Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2 qcap.dll --> ir32_32.dll
VFW IYUV Intel IYUV codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> iyuv_32.dll
VFW M261 Microsoft H.261 Video Codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh261.drv
VFW M263 Microsoft H.263 Video Codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh263.drv
VFW MRLE Microsoft RLE Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msrle32.dll
VFW MSVC Microsoft Video 1 Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msvidc32.dll
VFW YU12 ATI YUV12 Format Codec qcap.dll --> ATIYUV12.DLL
VFW YV12 ATI YUV12 Format Codec qcap.dll --> ATIYUV12.DLL