studio pctv pro owners, got a few questions

[monsoon01]

i bought this card awhile ago, and all these post i've seen about it today sparked my intrest in it again. i can watch t.v. on it fine, and the quality is good, but when i try to capute in any format, uncompressed, huffy, picvideo. whatever i try i drop frames like crazy, so i want to know if anyone else is having this problem or is it just me, and of course how ur set up for capturing. thanx.

system:
1ghz tbird
384mb ram
geforce2 ultra
studio pctv pro
30 gig ata100 7200rpm capture drive
30 gig ata100 7200rpm system drive
turtle beach santa cruz sound card

[PatMar]

Make sure that the DMA option is turned on for the harddisk
Also be sure that the harddisk, cable, and the controller are all for ATA 100.

defrag the harddisk regularly and make sure that no software is running on the background.

[monsoon01]

i've already done of that, it helped, but not much. all i really want to know is what other people are using as their settings and what programs they are using.

[Berthil]

I'm using ASUS A7A motherboard, 1,2 Mhz Athlon, 40G ATA 100 7200 rpm IBM disk with 2Mb cache, 512 Mb DDR, Windows XP Prof, AVI_IO and I can capture 768x576 without any dropped frames. The disk is a clean empty extra disk (slave), no Windows page files or any other files there.

The previous post has good tips, especially cable. Some people tend to hook up the extra disk to the second IDE controller, but this one doesn't support ATA 100! Use 64 (blue) fully wired IDE cable on primary IDE controller.

[monsoon01]

ok, thanx guys, AVI_IO is a God sent. This program will not drop a single frame while VDUB drops 30-50. anyway, I have a new problem, the sound. It is horrible and I would love to know if there was a way I can clean it up so I can start making VCDs of TV shows. Thanz for anymore help you can give me.

[monsoon01]

things that go **BUMP** in the night