AVI_IO

[Enrico Ng]

can anyone get me a non-trial copy of AVI_IO. My trial ran out, and its a great program, but I'm not going to buy it until I can figure out how to keep it from causeing my computer to reboot or freeze after a capture.

[LvR]

To you all,This is an extract from the sharp end of some correspondance I have had with Haig on the subject

"I have managed to reproduce the BSOD and it does seem to be our bug. Programming group tells me that they will look into having it fixed for the final release but don't know when this will be.

This is a pretty nasty bug because eventhough our remote is using Direct Show, apps like Premiere and Ulead still use Vidcap to access the capture card rather than using our vidcap driver.

Haig

This is in other words not an AVI_IO problem

Regards
Lawrence

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Lawrence


[This message has been edited by LvR (edited 04 July 2000).]

[CrispuloV]

AVI_IO_TRIAL caused an invalid page fault in
module RRAPI.DLL at 018f:024fc2fe.
Registers:
EAX=0065f5ec CS=018f EIP=024fc2fe EFLGS=00010212
EBX=0065f6ca SS=0197 ESP=0065f57c EBP=0065f57c
ECX=02631580 DS=0197 ESI=00000197 FS=0de7
EDX=02640000 ES=0197 EDI=86c830c7 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 0a eb e3 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
Stack dump:
0065f5a4 024fc14e 02640000 026315fc 0065f5ec 00000002 02520188 00000000 bff7b9c5 81627120 0065f5c0 024fbf5e 02631600 00000001 0065f5ec 02520188

The above is just the latest of many similar error messages caused when I try MPEG4 capture at CIF size at 30 fps with either AVI_IO or VirtualDub or ReelCap using my Marvel G400 set to YUY2. I have used the YUY2 mod created by "The Flying Dutchman" and the old MPEG4 dll. I have also tried DIVX with the same results. The "illegal operation" message comes as early as 1 minute or after 20 minutes. I think the problem is related to bit rates since I can capture well at 15 fps.

My setup is as follows: Win98SE, Celeron 400 on a Soyo 6BA+III motherboard, 64 Mb of PC100 RAM, Maxtor 20.4 Gb 7200 rpm IDE (D:\ is my 12 Gb capture partition ), SB-16 ISA sound card. I capture from an old 4-head VHS composite output.

The error has occurred on 2 other motherboards, a Celeron 500, and a Pentium III 667. I tried capturing on a separate master hard disk with the boot disk on its own channel. I have used 128 Mb of PC133 RAM. I have also tried using 3 generations of VidTools and 3 generations of Marvel drivers, same results. I tried Win98SE with no other programs loaded except those needed for capture. I tried Win95b, too. Thinking the capture chip was overheating, I opened my case and had an electric fan blow air directly into it, nothing works.

I have tried capturing hardware MJPEG at full size 30 fps, the hard disk was able to keep up. I tried using the PICVideo MJPEG codec 30 fps CIF, no problem even with my puny Celeron 400. I really hope somebody has a solution.
I hope you can suggest other solutions.
Thanks in advance.