Have you checked for video card driver updates?

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MVP Digital Media
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"Elcamp" wrote in message
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I've read through a number of posts and my problem is slightly different.
I
have 2 Sony Camcorders, ATI AIW Radeon 8500 DV video card, Windows XP Pro
SP2
and 3 capture software programs (Ulead VideoStudio, Sonic MyDVD and Arsoft
DVD2). My problem is as stated in the subject, but the software programs
do
control the cameras. When I try to capture video after the computer has
been
on for a while, I don't get picture or sound in the capture mode of any of
the programs. As it is the same for all software programs, I have to
assume
it is XP.

When I reboot the computer, sometimes, I will then get video and sound in
the capture mode, but if I leave it and go to something else and come
back,
the video and sound are no longer there. I have to reboot again and that
dosen't always work. This has started since I installed SP2 and the
updates.

I've run 'scandisc' and I downloaded and installed the XPCodecPack.
Neither
made any difference.

I would appreciate any help anyone can provide.

Thanks