VirtualDub compression ratios and frame dropping

[scottb721]

I use HuffUV in VituralDub for transfering my camcorder tapes to SVCD.
I have an AMD 1800 with 256Mg DDR400 RAM and a Seagate 60Gb 7200rpm HDD.
I'm capturing at 480x576 in VDub. The CPU usage in the VDub log only sits around 20% whilst capturing and the compression rate is only around 1.5.
Questions,
1. How do I increase the compression rate to use more of the CPU so that I can get more capture time before the HD fills up?

2. My 60Gb is in 2 partitions, C 10gb and D 50Gb
Even with all the data on D drive defraged and moved to the start of the drive I get 2 dropped frames during 10min captures.
I assume it happens when the HD is moving to a new point (1 frame at about 4mins and the other around 9mins, does vary though)
My defrag window shows the same number of fragments as the number of frames dropped during the capture.

What else can I do to prevent frame drops ?
or should I be happy with just 2 or 3 frames per 10-15 mins?

Thanks

[Fred©]

You need nothing to do... 2 or 3 dropped frames are REALLY GOOD ratio!

I am afraid that, with huffy codec, you cant raise the compression ratio of the stream...

try PicVideo codec.

Fred©