Help! Am I losing frames?

[jwlc1998]

I do not know what to do...

I am using a WinFast A250 Ultra TD - MyVIVO Edition Video Card (nVidia Ti 4600, 128 MB S-Video And Composite In And Out).

I have a Dish Player where I have recorded a whole bunch of TV shows that I like that I want to transfer to my computer with the absolute best image quality... but I don't want them to be 1 GB files either, hehe!

Anyways... I am a newbie, but here is what I have done so far...

I am not having any trouble with getting the video and sound in... I am using the latest version of VirtualDub and I am encoding with Divx 5.02.

Here is a link to a test file I did. To me, it just doesn't look fantastic... I think I am losing frames or something... according to the settings, I am getting 15 frames per second... and if I modify it, I lose frames or it gets choppy? Can someone download the test file (about 600 KB), take a look, and let me know what I can do to improve the quality?

http://www.cdsend.com/testing04.avi

UPDATE!!! HERE IS MY LATEST TEST... AND I CAN DEFINITELY SEE SOME KIND OF FRAME DROPPAGE OR SOMETHING WEIRD... PLEASE HELP!!!

http://www.cdsend.com/testing05.avi (ABOUT 3 MB)

Should I lock the video stream to audio? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How can I make it look less choppy? Or... is it fine and am I just going crazy? At this rate... I can get a 30 minute show (20 - 24 minutes without comercials... to around 100 MB).

I am posting some of my VirtualDub settings at the bottom...

Thanks!

Jay

Capturing
Audio Compression To MPEG Layer-3
Verify Audio Volume
Video Format To 320 x 240 At UYVY
Video Source To S-Video
Video Compression To Divx 5.0.2 Codec
Enable Cropping
Cropping Bounds Should Be X1 10 X2 10 Y1 2 Or 30 Y2 2 Or 30
Set Capture File
Set Stop Conditions 1830 Or 3660

Editing
Set Compression To Divx 5.0.2 Codec

[medievil]

The problem is most likely that you are tryign to capture the audio to MP3. Divx compression already eats cpu cycles, Unless you have a very, very fast PC, Compressing to divx and mp3 in realtime doesn't work to well. As a test, try a different audio format.

[jwlc1998]

Hehe... I have a Athlon XP 2200 system with 512 MB PC2700 SDRAM... I just tried using Microsoft's Mpeg4 Codec Version 2... is this correct? Anyways... it works quite well... any thoughts?

Also, what is the common codec for audio?

Jay

[svingen]

try to use wav that not requery cpu only disk and sice you caputere to divx the disk is not the problem