Still have a audio dropout when printing back to tape at 2:05

[wkulecz]

You sid its a Dell. I've an older Dell notebook that can't do glitch free output backto 1394 if anything is connected to the USB port.
Device manager showed all Intel on the motherboard. But this causes gray blocks on output not audio glitches. Messing up only the audio part of a DV stream is just too weird!

When you get desperate try a different video card. But I'd certainly try a different brand camcorder as Brian has suggested, its easy, and you may be looking in the wrong place for the solution.

Merry Xmas!
--wally.

[Patrick]

My two cents worth

Your drives may not be the problem, but to simplify master/slave configurations, why not install a Promise Ultra/100 TX2 controller card. They're very inexpensive and you'd be able to have every IDE device installed as a master on it's own IDE header.

[Flying dutchman]

Since your "hickup" always occurs at exactly the same spot, I think you can safely exclude any "random" factors such as cable lengths, power supply probs, disk speed, master/slave issues etcetera or else the problem would occur on random moments also and not consistently at the same time.

More likely it's a software/firmware/timing problem. Did you test your hard disk for bad sectors? Do you have "s.m.a.r.t." disabled in your PC's Bios? How about power management? Virus scanners?

Just a moment, a thought just crossed my mind:

I own a Canon MV 30 myself which I believe is the PAL version of the Optura Pi you have. A while back I did read something about a sound issue with this camera, about the sound being sampled at 48.008 kbps instead of 48.000 . I didn't check it out myself, though, but if it is true it would indeed cause dropped audio frames at regular time intervals if you would edit the clips and feed them back into the camera. My camera doesn't have DV-IN so I can't verify it for you.

You can test it for yourself:

If you keep the camera running after one hickup, does another one appear after 04:10, 06:15, 08:20 etc ?

[Hulk]

Okay, this is getting stranger and stranger. 1/0.008 is 125, or 2 minutes and 5 seconds!!!!!!

Later tonight I'm going to keep it running and see if I get another glitch at 4:10.

I'll let you know what happens.

[Hulk]

Glitch ONLY occurs at 2:05, not 4:10, etc...

Just for kicks I tried exporting with audio at 44khz instead of 48khz. Still glitches.

I have to get a hold of another non-Canon camera...