Digital Video - glitch on tape - strange encoding

After having taped more than 50 DV tapes using my Sony PC2E camcorder, I suddently have had strange problems on the tape I have captured on. When visiting Greece in June this year, I taped 6 tapes. One full tape and the first 26 minutes of another tape is full of strange glitches. These glitches appears on the tape. When capturing the tapes I get no dropped frames, and the datestramps are all just fine.

However, the sound is useless, it sounds as every half second is missing and a lot of noise occurs.

The frames are fairly strange. Some with glitches in - but even more strange, the captured frames are encoded very strange. It is almost as several frames have been encoded on top of each other.

Glitches
Strange encoding

I'll try to figure out what the problems could be, and update this page accordingly.


Last updated: July 29th, 2002