So what am I doing wrong.

Michael Eskin · December 5th, 2007, 05:46 PM

Thanks for the info. I figured an Adaptec 3-port 1394 board based on a TI OHCI compliant 1394 controller was pretty much a standard configuration for this sort of work, but I'll try some other alternatives as well as other ports on this board.

Are there additional device settings for this card that would help the situation?

Any specific boards you recommend?

Thanks,

Michael

David Newman · December 5th, 2007, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Eskin

Thanks for the info. I figured an Adaptec 3-port 1394 board based on a TI OHCI compliant 1394 controller was pretty much a standard configuration for this sort of work, but I'll try some other alternatives as well as other ports on this board.

Are there additional device settings for this card that would help the situation?

Any specific boards you recommend?

Thanks,

Michael

Most modern (even cheap) Fireware cards seem to addresss the problem. We don't recommend any brand, only changing out from the one you have.

Michael Eskin · December 5th, 2007, 06:00 PM

Will do! Thanks for the advice.

Michael Eskin · December 5th, 2007, 07:59 PM

Swapped the Adaptec out for another NEC-based 1394 board I had, seems to be much better so far. Thanks again for the recommendations.

Ron Wilber · December 7th, 2007, 03:09 AM

this is happening to me as well, my firewire port came with my gateway laptop. I'm also using a cheap 9 dollar fry's firewire cable. Can it be the cable that is causing these drops? I'd hate to have to use a pcmcia firewire card.

David Newman · December 7th, 2007, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ron Wilber

this is happening to me as well, my firewire port came with my gateway laptop. I'm also using a cheap 9 dollar fry's firewire cable. Can it be the cable that is causing these drops? I'd hate to have to use a pcmcia firewire card.

It is unlikely to be the cable, particularly is M2T only captures work. CPU load based errors are either the Firewire port or lack of CPU power, with a laptop it could be either.

Ron Wilber · December 7th, 2007, 01:10 PM

It's probably the card. I'm running a 2 giga core2 duo.

So the work around is to use HDVsplit to capture mt2 files without drop out, then use HDlink to convert them to avis. Is there any loss in quality or performance if I do it this way instead all with Neo HDV?

David Taylor · December 7th, 2007, 05:20 PM

Ron, no loss of quality at all - just an extra step.

December 5th, 2007, 05:46 PM	#16
Michael Eskin Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 73	Thanks for the info. I figured an Adaptec 3-port 1394 board based on a TI OHCI compliant 1394 controller was pretty much a standard configuration for this sort of work, but I'll try some other alternatives as well as other ports on this board. Are there additional device settings for this card that would help the situation? Any specific boards you recommend? Thanks, Michael

December 5th, 2007, 06:00 PM	#18
Michael Eskin Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 73	Will do! Thanks for the advice.

December 5th, 2007, 07:59 PM	#19
Michael Eskin Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 73	Swapped the Adaptec out for another NEC-based 1394 board I had, seems to be much better so far. Thanks again for the recommendations.

December 7th, 2007, 03:09 AM	#20
Ron Wilber Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 98	this is happening to me as well, my firewire port came with my gateway laptop. I'm also using a cheap 9 dollar fry's firewire cable. Can it be the cable that is causing these drops? I'd hate to have to use a pcmcia firewire card.

December 7th, 2007, 01:10 PM	#22
Ron Wilber Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 98	It's probably the card. I'm running a 2 giga core2 duo. So the work around is to use HDVsplit to capture mt2 files without drop out, then use HDlink to convert them to avis. Is there any loss in quality or performance if I do it this way instead all with Neo HDV?

December 7th, 2007, 05:20 PM	#23
David Taylor Major Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Solana Beach, CA Posts: 853	Ron, no loss of quality at all - just an extra step.