stargazer_1682,
    Don't know really what to say except sometimes a file in registry becomes corrupted and that is why a fresh install of program can fix that. Also it puts the device back to the default settings, getting rid of all the ghanged settings we some times do to get or try something different. Maybe try burning the program to a blank disc before you do a lot more setting changes to reinstall capture box,  just a thought

                                                  mark

           stargazer_1682,
I've doing the video capture about 4years, at first with a capture box made by ADS. It worked but onlly for about 30mins then it would overheat and drop all frames and freeze. I could get a little more run time out of it if I took the cover off and had a fan blowingon it !! Was to much of a hassle, so I tried a Dazzle capture box. It worked great I thoght { picture wise } but it had no audio. So I did some reading and found a known defect on my model of ADS box. I went out and bought a new one and never had a problem. I belive the software was by Ulead. That was on a 1.3ghz amd machine. Once in a great while something would get out of sync with settings and I would just uninstall then reinstall and all was good. I then moved up to a Plextor which was double the price,but I never have had one problem with it or the software. I am capturing video with regular video cable and a left and right audio cables from the vcr. To the computer is usb. You can also use an s-cable, from player to capture box  and the 2 audio cables from the output on your player to keep the audio intact.. Like I said I ended up buying the Plextor PX-M402U with a lot of features that I don't use but it works fantastic for me. I will say though the newer ADS capture works every bit as good for half the price. Just alot less features and formats that I don't use anyway. With any of them though expect a learning curve and some hours spent finding what works for you. As a side note you can only get 2 hours record time using mpeg2 to anolog tape to a single sided DVD disc. That is if you want to play it on the majority of tv settop dvd players. M-PEG 4 allows alot more { which the plextor does } but not many players support that yet, at least not my budget !!              good luck                 mark            Dimension 4600, xp home, sp-2, bios A-12
3.0ghz with ht
2 gig pc3200 ddr sdram @400mhz
maxtor 250 gig sata hd with 16mb buffer
maxtor 300 gig sata hd with 16mb buffer
maxtor 300 gig external hard drive
16x dvd rom
nec 3540a dvd - rw burner
floppy drive
msi 6600gt video card with vivo
plextor px-402u,{ video capture box }
PC Power and Cooling, Turbo-cool 425 atx-Deluxe