I'm trying to convert some old VHS videos to DVD. However, I'm having a problem with VirtualDub... Every second, no matter what compression I use (or even if I don't use any compression), no matter what capture image size I use, no matter if I increase the NT priority from High to Realtime, no matter if I set the video card's display output to 16 or 32-bit video, I still drop 9-10 frames/second with CPU utilization only in the 15-20% range.

Now, the weird thing about this is that I was using this setup (except an older version of VirtualDub) without problems a few months ago. My hardware, operating system, etc. has not changed at all. Here is the setup I'm using (that was working fine a few months ago...) PII/300, 384MB RAM, Win2KPro-SP3, ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP capture card, VirtualDub 1.4.13, PICVideo 2.10.0.28 (or no compression just to test); recording composite video at 320x240 UYVY. The ONLY things that have changed since the last time I was doing this are VirtualDub was at 1.4.10 (I believe), PICVideo was older (??? version), and my ATI video drivers have been updated to newer ATI ones.

Normally, I have a few apps & services loaded, but if no "front-end" apps are running, System Idle (PID 0) is constantly 98-99%... Any ideas?