That's what it says in Everest, anyway.

I managed to get my video capture from the camcorder working, but the video that gets captured turns out all jumpy and skipping. Very seriously wrong. The only thing I can immediately think of is the capture card, if that's what it is. It has three firewire sockets on the back. It also has an internal socket, which isn't currently wired up to anything.

Any ideas?

If you are capturing footage from the Firewire/1394 port from a DV camcorder then the footage being choppy is more likely to be your system not up to the job of manipulating the data, (Probably a lack of RAM, slow or fragmented hard drive), video footage tends to be quite big in this format, approximately 5 mins of footage = 1Gigabyte file size.

Could it be the firewire card being a software rather than a hardware one?

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/1394/vt6306l/ is a hardware controller, how much RAM have you got?


Might be worth asking on here http://www.viaarena.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=89ce8a64308d0f68cd0a57e101bd930a&f=9

I've only got 1 gb of ram (can't use the laptop, which has 3gb, because no firewire port), and there is something burnt out on the board, so that can't be helping. Still, I am able to capture stills from the tape, which is the main thing I wanted, so can't complain.