WinFast capture issues

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Got a WinFast 2000 XP deluxe. Trying to capture from VHS. Very new to this stuff

I'm running a fresh install of Windows XP pro, 768 meg 2100 ram, 1800+ cpu, 64 meg Geforce 3 video card, my desktop is set to 800x600 16 bit, all power management options are off, and most background processes have been turned off. The setting I'm using is the DVD ntfs pre-configured setting choice that WinFast PVR offers - current version downloaded from their site. I'm still too 'green' to want to mess with other programs, and create potential system conflicts with what's already installed.

Guess I should add that I have 1 Maxtor 80 gig hd, ata100, 7200 rpm.

Latest problem/learning experience. I had a VHS tape with four TV episodes on it. I waited about 10 seconds after the VHS had begun to show the next episode to stop the recording. I figured I'd just edit out the beginning of the next episode with TMPGenc DVD author.

Loaded it up. Went to the end and voila... no end. The WinFast card had stopped the capture about 8 seconds before the end of the first episode. The prevous day when I tested the card with several three minute captures, it recorded right up to where I stopped it. This capture was one and a half hours long. There are no frame rate drops. Voice is in sync. The only weird thing is the difference between my ending point and the PC's ending point. Does the card or the system develop some processing lag that I'm not aware of, or is it just my system?

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hi

i have the exact same card and i had nothing but trouble with the pvr software, i know you said you didn't want to use another program, but i suggest if the problem persists, give virtualvcr a go, http://www.digtv.ws

great little program, you still use the leadtek drivers, if you want to capture to dvd quality, i'm not sure on the exact settings but i'm sure you can find them on here. i've never had a problem with this stopping at different lengths.

edit: ah after thinking about it, i noticed something about the time when i do my recordings, when i record with virtualvcr the recording will be say 1 hour, but the on screen timer will say something like 58 minutes, so it could be, and this is a big stab in the dark, a case of it checks to see the time the program thinks it has recorded and makes the video length match that. i ended up getting that working right on my computer this week when i increased the size of my swap file, (right click my computer -> advanced - >performance options -> virtual memory/page file (depending on windows version) and set it to say around 1.5gb start size and like 2gb max size (seeing you have 768mb ram), i originally had 1gb swap file and i increased it to 2gb and the problem has been resolved.

matthew

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Sorry it took this long to thank you for all the input.

You know that bragging that I was doing about not dropping frames? Well.... My tests were all a couple of minutes long. Turns out that after I added the end scene back in, and burned that 1 and a 1/2 hour episode to DVD, I do have synch issues. It takes about fifteen minutes before it begins and gets maginally worse until the end.

Anyway...now I'll do the right thing and read all the synch posts I can find before posting any questions. If anyone has experienced Winfast synch issues and wants to point me in the right direction a little faster... it would be appreciated.

To start, I'll try increasing my swap file and cross my fingers that it's that easy to fix. Then I'll have to go back and see if it was really the capture that has the synch issue or if it appeared in TMPGenc dvd author. (Not at home this week-end to check it out)

This Virtualvcr program... If I use it, then does anyone know if the Add/Remove in Windows will be clean enough to prevent conflicts between it and PVR, or are there other settings in the system I should also delete?