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More info?)
nospam@needed.com (Paul) writes:
>
> I guess playing the clip means simultaneous disk access, plus DMA
> transfers to various cards. Does playing the clip go to the 1394
> port on the DVStorm2 ? I would have thought playing a clip would
> tend to just use disk, processor, and video card. But maybe Canopus
> does decoding on the DVStorm2, in which case data would go in and
> out of the DVStorm2 while playing.
About which port... You can set that to ohci 1394 or dvstorm. In fact
it only happens when storm is selected. I'm not sure what all happens
inside the card but its main calling card is a realtime output. In to
edit/out to monitor in realtime.
> That "64" setting was probably the PCI Latency Timer. When there
Yup
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> In your rec.video.desktop posting, you mention that Device Manager
> only has one entry for the DVStorm2. You would think if the
> card has a Firewire port on it, that there would be a PCI bridge
> on the DVStorm2, that connects multiple PCI devices to the
> PCI edge card connector. It seems a little strange that other
> devices don't show up in Device Manager.
Yeah that puzzled me too. But I've since learned that is normal from
other users.
> I don't know if you've tried this experiment, but I'd try loading
> the clip onto your PATA drive, instead of SATA, on the off-chance
> that the PATA connection to the chipset bus doesn't use PCI.
> (Maybe it is bridged to the bus between Northbridge and
> Southbridge via a different path than the PCI bus.)
What is a `PATA' drive?
> Another experiment you could try, is loading the clip on another
> computer, and pulling the disk data through Ethernet. That would
> eliminate the disk ports from interfering with bus traffic, but
> introduce the Ethernet as a source of interference.
I thought about getting around it all by just installing the DVStorm
on an accessable Intel Celeron. Using the gigabit ethernet tools,
doing the editing on the Athlon(the problem machine). I'm told it can
work but would be a whole new way of setting stuff up. And to tell
the truth, I hate those beatings my wife gives me when I mess up her
computer (The celeron)
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> Good luck,
Thanks for an informative response. I'm afraid the necessary
sophistication for further testing is missing here...
I've pretty much given up unless I hear from someone who knows this
can work. Hence the post here. Its taking too much time away from
getting other work done.
I'm having a box built around the DVStorm
Intel 3.4ghz (478 socket)
2Gb ram
Asus P4C800E-Deluxe (Very popular with DVStorm users
But will still have lots of editing power on the athlon too. I
suspect I'll get the two onboard gigabit ethernet capabilities into
play too.
The athlon has no problems with Premiere Pro and onboard 1394 capture/
editing etc. and with a 1/2 dozen Adobe pkgs its still formidable as
editing station. (Not heavy professional work)
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