Recording DV on Windows XP 

Capturing via FireWire gives you much higher quality than than using the USB capture, since it gives you the raw DV data off the tape, instead of converting it down to a low-res 320x240 video format like Sony's USB Streaming does. And if you think capturing DV video in Windows is difficult, try doing it in Linux! p.s. When the camcorder's image turned green, that's because it switched into NightShot mode.

It wouldn't be an episode of Druaga without the setup crashing straight away. BTW Druaga that editing is on point, it is so glorious.

lol that fingersnap-editing was glorious

5 min into the video Blue Screen FUCKING LOL

OMG YOU'VE BEEN UPLOADING FOR 10 YEARS!?!?! YOU'RE AN ACTUAL LEGEND!

4:44 That 10-second silence of absolute disbelief.

Why did I laugh so hard at 9:45 when he said "Even got the sound drivers installed and everything" and XP just beeped at him like "LOL NOPE", this was funny as fuck for some reason :'D

"Let's use the 'Send To...' button." "Don't breathe this!"

Install XP on your video camera

I have never, in my life, seen Windows XP bluescreen so early, I didn't even think it could even bluescreen during early setup! That's nuts!

"We even got some sound drivers installed!" *clicks volume slider* motherboard beeps.... "oh shit". XD that cracked me up good one Druaga1

What about the follow up on the iPod?

"I don't wanna install quick time because it's a security flaw." *Installs Windows XP instead*

"hopefully we don't run into any ice cream ads" I get it now I want a cookie

"I'll just save it on the desktop because I don't know where else to put it." What about in My Videos?

Druaga I wish you uploaded more than once or twice a week becauase you are my all-time favorite RU-vidr (Sorry Linus!) and you are hilarious to watch and make me smile alot :D

Just made the 600 like's Milestone! Always a new chalenge... Love your videos!

wtf you got a blue screen so quickly how the hell

I have been doing computers for years and installed XP hundreds of times and don't think I have ever seen it crash on the blue part of setup like that.

When the annotation saying "Ear rape in 10 seconds" popped up I said to myself...."I'm ready..."

The nostalgic sounds of an old Sony camera.

handbrake also has the decomb filter, which doesn't apply deinterlacing unless it needs to - which really helps preserve image quality. helped a ton when i was ripping my star trek dvds.

You needed the power for the FireWire card...

the fingersnap is amazing

28:28 is my notification sound so I checked my phone. Damn you Druaga for bamboozling me.

Every Druaga1 video ever: Everything goes wrong. What did you expect? And I actually like that.

I recall editing a DV video imported via FireWire on a Windows 98 machine, back in early 2002... So, why you think XP won't be able to handle FireWire makes me curious...

You didn't try using Handbrake?

Lubuntu didn't lock up! It just takes a while to start it up. Have patience! More than you'd usually have! :)

Now, I dare you to upload the speaker video please. Even if it's inside the video, i don't care because I want to watch it alone. :D

Oh my god I was sick of Krazy Ken"s tech misadventures

It's been my experience that capturing video from Firewire is very easy to do on Windows (as long as the computer has a working Firewire interface of course). My old Canon camera is totally plug-n-play with everything from XP to 10 when using Firewire, and the ironic thing is that it actually didn't work at all in OSX.

your channel is growing so fast, I don't know what to do

The green thing is actually Sony's Nightshot turning on. I think it's pattented and only they have cameras that can record in IR. docs.sony.com/release/dcrtrv19.pdf here is the manual and you can see when reading the extra specs that the camera has the nighshot feature. It's a cool feature and it's what you see when people go ghost hunting in the night and everything is green

VLC allows you to capture video and audio for free. I find it funny I can sit and watch a 40 minute Drauga1 video, but when it comes to a long Markiplier video, I can manage about 10 before getting bored.

Damn, bro. Seriously, when I was using DV tapes I plugged it into either a capture card or RCA -> DVD/VCR combo device.

Dude you make my day with your vids....keep them coming and more often lol. peace :)

9:16 - I really loved these cuts.. "What the hell happened?" 9:46 - Even got some sound drivers installed *system beep* Ah.. Shit.. 26:56 - I don't need to see anymore of this drive to know it's an IBM Deskstar.. Tough as nails, like wheel-bearings; they get louder with life, it's when they get quiet again you gotta worry. :P Firewire was where it was at then every-time I'd used it on a computer configured; it just worked. Granted I'd of probably gone through similar notions as you unless I'd had the hardware on hand like you did. (XP and video capture, firewire on XP, etc. I have the same reservations) What a battle though, 36:17 made it worth it, that's about as good as that little guy could do It'd seem. Not half bad, great for the time. Glad you got through it man! Good times as always.

Do a Quatum bigfoot raid0 video. It would be epic

Is it just me or is it weirdly satisfying when you turn on subtitles and you see "fuck" in them? Is that just me?

I literally captured test footage using WinDV on a DV camera from 2005 on windows 10 and it works fine.

Another good episode bro! keep up the good work.

good idea with this drive! also congrats you managed to install a pci firewire USB 2 card, I always only managed to get either a firewire card or a usb 2.0 card to run properly! I used a Sony camcorder and windows XP Pro for personal video productions till 2010 and capturing Digital 8 tapes with the plain program Windows Movie Maker was the most comfortable way for me: Choose the file type (DV / AV / mpeg2), choose auto scene on/off and control the camcorder with your mouse -it worked with both 4:3 and 16:9 material. with other programs the ratio was wrong most at the time, obviously for video editing I recommend other editors like from pinnacle...

I remember when I first heard of DV Camcorders back in 2000 when I was using Windows ME. I think more support for DV cameras was a new feature of Windows ME.

I were watching one of ur other vids when I got notified! 😀

This is some kind of computer porn. I can feel your success of you doing computer things.

YES Another video! You always make my day ;)

You can use VLC to convert the codecs, You can load it into its convert menu, then select what codec you want. I would recommend H.264 codec!

i love how all ur vids are almost an hour long

Ylu didn't plug power to the FireWire card.

Hey, Druaga the first firewire card doesn't work because it hasn't been connected to the floppy power.

why not just use handbrake and convert the files into mp4

i liked all video i really enjoy watching u keep it up bro :)

I read on a security blog that the work-around for the QuickTime problem is to do a custom install of QuickTime, un-check anything that installs QuickTime Player, and only install the QuickTime Framework. The Framework will allow your computer to read anything in apple format, and there are no associated vulnerabilities, since the vulnerabilities lie with the Player, not the Framework.

all that was missing from the iPod video was an adapter for the pins, will you ever do a follow-up?

I use to record DV tapes to digital via yellow, red and white cables. Would you say thats the wrong way to capture it?

I bought a FireWire card specifically for this lol, still works on Windows 10 and I use Vegas Pro (Movie Studio is the same) to capture DV Tapes onto the PC, no third party software required as Vegas has in built software to capture DV and HDV footage through FireWire

For some reason Windows won't detect any of my DV cams neither on XP and 2 different Firewire cards...

I am very interested in what you said that movie maker would import the files at very bad quality. Can you give more information on it?

Can't you capture with OBS?

what is that firewire card called, i have the same one on my desk and been trying to find out what model it is... thanks dude

Where does he get all these cheap SSDs?

love the editing in this one!

Hey Druaga, im pretty sure somebody already figured this out but, when you had that red firewire card in the computer you forgot to plug in the floppy power for the card to work. And that's why it wouldn't show up in device manager.

Love your videos smoker! Keep it up

All hail to the Orangelink Firewire Card.

"lays everything on carpet" gg for the vid

DV Cameras record in 720 x 480 for NTSC and for PAL its 720 x 576. DV Video bit rates tend to range from 25mbps to 30mbps. Also, I'm using Sony Video Capture to capture all my DV footage...since my Panasonic DVX100B is my primary camera. I have an older Windows 7 machine and use a Texas Instruments firewire card and works like a charm.

I'm early. Never been this early before.

holy shit that finger clicking stuff had me fooled for a second, very funny....but just how did you have to hold your arm in that position waiting?

Hey Druaga, is that KingDian SSD any good? I'm tempted to get one to add to my old laptop, so I can have fun dual-booting without pesky disk partitions and destroying your Windows MBR and all that.

those were some pretty good cuts

GOD DAMN IT I WISH I HAD ENOUGH TIME TO WATCH THIS!!!!!!!!!!

how did you forget the power for the first FireWire card

If you have Windows Live Photo Gallery, it can capture the DV stream in AVI format in Windows 10. Files are huge, but they can be transcoded.

8:38 An error with blank buttons. Yup, totally makes sense. xD

yo drauga can you teach me how to snap to speed up time like that pls

why didn't you just convert the old DV file to MP4(or AVI) again?

YAY NEW VIDEO. LIFE IS COMPLETE

10/10 6/9 4/20 nice transition.

Nice video! This inspired me to pull out the old Sharp VL-Z3, but it looks like I have a bad Firewire cable. Maybe I'll buy another cable one day.

that kinda brings back memories though when i was in school we used Pinnacle studio i think it was version 8 or 9 back then

Can you help me? I want to the date me shown while capturing from DV is it possible? That brings back only the good memories

Could you try to export the episode in 1080p or so anyway? I know that's a higher resolution than it was originally, but RU-vid encodes 1080p at a much higher bit rate than 480p, so it will look absolutely awesome for an almost ten year old video!

I like how you handle your hardware like me. Haphazardly.

Also in Movie Studio Platinum the reason you saw Combing in the preview is because the project settings are set to 29.97i

wait does the camera support 120hz? I WANNA SEE THAT , i want some sick 144p120 video

I remember getting Amcap with a webcam driver. It was Genius GF 112.

Wouldn't checking the box next to the capture button give a recording preview?

Is there any benefit to DV tapes?

windows movie maker (in XP) has a built int tool to "capture dv" to a drive then you just cancel before it imports them and will leave you with the DV files. The newest adobe still works with DV AVI footage. (though dont forget to set the field blending in the time line) **thats the same camera I use to use..

Can you give a link to the old version of amcap?

You are so awesome lol keep up the good work XD

6:22 Wait.. 5120MB OK...?? Is that RAM size?

Wow cool. I might use something like this when I start up my first video editing computer :D

What is your main computer running with

I love my JBL speaker. I opened it up and ran ext. speaker hookups for better stereo.

(creepy voice) Hello, Ian. I like your computer show. :-] (heavy breathing)

Is QuickTime alternative affected?

On your first firewire card, I noticed there was a power port for the power supply. I don't think you plugged it in, so that's why it wasn't detected in Windows.