Re: [slug-chat] Free Beer for Win98/Digital Cam Problem

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Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:

> Two major problems.
> Before it can capture to the hard disk, it tests it and requires >4K/sec
> transfer. The tests come back with ranges from 357bytes/sec to 19K/sec.
> Any ideas on this one. It is a new Fujitsu 30GB IDE DMA standard speed.
> It is on the secondary controller by itself.

Make sure you're using a BusMastering DMA IDE driver if one is
availbile for the chipset.  Also make sure the DMA option it set on
for that drive.  That should increase the transfer speed somewhat -
IDE without DMA is slow - especially on windows.  Of course, enabling
DMA on a buggy chipset can also cause strife - VIA is one such chipset
[the standard driver pack they distribute doesn't have the right IDE
driver in it]

> There is definitely something doing something in the background when the
> test is being run as sounds happen when testing. Any ideas on tracking
> this rogue down? And what is the Ein95/98 equivalent of Checkit?

There is a Win9x version of CheckIt availible.

Of course, the obvious path is: disable all virus scanners, disable
Windows Scheduler (if you haven't done so already).

> Second problem is sound. It takes it sound to and from the sound card,
> and basically it has lost the sound card. When it captures, you can
> display the tape on the screen and listen in, but this has disappeared.

????  What are you trying to say?

> Soundcard is a Creative Vibra 128 (PCI). Side question, what controls
> the legacy card settings in autoexec.bat. It keeps putting the interrupt
> to 7, which conflicts with parrallel port.

You'll probably find you can use Property Settings in the Device
Manager to change this to 5, which was the other accepted standard for
old SB cards.  Or even better, uninstall legacy support, since thats
all done using smoke and mirrors for MS-DOS Windows - the card itself has
no hardware legacy support that I'm aware of.

> The motherboard is an Asus P5???. 
> 
> Basically, clean install, and the software worked. Started adding other
> software, like HP scanner and CD writer and problems started. Pinnacle
> were real helpful and said their software has problems differentiating
> between a parallel port scanner and the firewire camera and these should
> really be on seperate systems.

Parallel Port Scanner? *ew* I would have thought people would know to
buy USB or SCSI scanners these days.  Another good argument for why
you shouldn't ever buy Parallel Port driven devices.

> Personally, if I knew of good linux video editing software, I would have
> installed it for them and told them to forget win98 right from go (they
> are computer newbies - I sold them the system 8 months ago).

Its a field that hasn't really been touched in Linux AFAIK - V4L is
providing framework to build upon, just nobody seems to be building
upon it.
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