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Drew Burgess's picture
Why did my PC video capture stop working?

First my firewire IEEE 1394 capture started dropping frames, and then it died all together. I mostly use Premier Pro to capture, but I do not think it is a problem with the software configuration because windows does not respond to the camera being connected at all (+ have tried different cameras so it is not a problem with a specific camera either).
I tried replacing the firewire card with a new one, and no success,  so I know the problem is not a faulty unit, + on device manager it says the hardware is connected and working properly. The problem is simply that when I connect a camera nothing happens.

Was just wondering if anyone else has experienced similar problems, I know some video codecs can cause conflicts with this device, but I have so many different codecs installed that I would not know where to begin in an attempt to remove them all, is there any particular codec or software I should look out for? 

Has anyone ever experienced a problem such as this?

+ any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.

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