can't capture in anything but Windows Movie Maker

This can not stand. I posted something like this is rec.video, and I
know it's not completely ok to repost like this, but I'm googled out.

I can't believe I'm stuck with Windows Movie Maker and WMF files.


I have a Toshiba a70 laptop and a Canon Optura 50 connected by a
firewire PC card. The card is a StarTech, pretty cheapo but I can
capture using Windows Movie Maker. The display controller on the laptop
is ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP with 64MB DDR video memory shared video
memory. The Toshiba has .5G memory, and the drive is 2400, and like I
said, Windows Movie Maker does the capture fine. I just feel a bit
rankled by the WMF limitations. Plus, I'd like to know just *why*?

I've tried Ulead and WinDVD but both fail to capture. They seem to
recognize the camera:

WinDVD names the camera as Canon DV device, and Ulead Video Studio sees
it as a MS DV device.

Windows Device Manager gives the driver as ks.sys.

Any idea? Since I can capture in Movie Maker, it can't be a problem in
the hardware config. What though?

Drives me nuts.



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