e-on:

OK, I'm home for the weekend and nowhere near my code, but I managed to cause a problem like Dave's getting a while back by, I think, destroying a handle that was owned by the system, not my app, which seemed to cause a major leak of GDI resources. Could have been the opposite though, it was a while ago! Wouldn't dispute that video drivers could do it, but it can also happen when GDI resources get too low - along with desktop icons becoming amusingly arbitrary - 98SE onwards, GDI seems to maintain a 4xn imagelist of buttons and currently running program icons, and, if resources get too low, blits that into your dc whatever you called for! On the bright side ISTR that it was was the MS documentation that was at fault, rather than yours truly.

Timoteo1:

If you're using Storm cards, then I'm frankly amazed that any software, including Premiere, works properly on your system. My company spent thousands on those things, they're in a cardboard box under my desk at the mo. The suppliers won't take them back, they've no second hand value and Canopus have never answered any of my e-mails. Worst thing is they're redundant anyway, why buy a capture card that's no faster than a standard firewire and uses a proprietary compression so that every frame captured has to be re-rendered? Sorry about the rant, but they really are a sore point with me ATM.

Redrags

John