Audio capture with IEE1394

[Philippe J]

Hi!

I hope someone can help 'cause I'm about to book myself
into a mental institution.

Here's the problem:

- I have four brilliant DV tapes from my holiday in
Florida, recorded on a brand new SONY TVR22E DV
camcorder....

- I want to capture them on my hard disk and edit them;
guess what? I use a pretty new too SONY Vaio PC (Pentium
4 2.8 MHz, 768 Mb DDR SDRAM, IEE 1394 firewire
connection, 120 Gb HDD, etc...)

- So I connect the camcorder to the PC with an IEE 1394
cable.

- REGARDLESS of the capture software used (so far,
Windows Movie Maker, Image Mixer and Pinnacle Studio 8
have been used), the audio quality is rubbish -lost
frames I'm told... Studio 8 tells me that the transfer
rate into the HDD is too low (i.e. 3K against 4.4K for
AVI quality).

- I've gone through all the newsgroups and the only lead
at the moment is about my hard disk not being DMA-
enabled. I've checked it in the BIOS and found that Ultra
DMA [5] was selected - in Windows XP device manager, the
primary IDE works in PIO mode despite the fact that "DMA
when available" is checked.

What is going on? I have tried to reduce the DMA setting
in BIOS (down to 2 then 0) but this has no effect
whatsoever.

Any views out there or should I phone the local hospice?

Cheers

Philippe