Bunch of framedrops.

[decipio]

I have a problem here, my progs drops like hell from time to time. It's not that they drops some frame here some frame there. It just comes in a bunch.
Like 150 frames (usually after about 3 mins).

My system specs are as below:
AMD Athlon 1.33GHZ
256 MB RAM
Pinnacle Rave.

Thank you for your help,

[decipio]

oh btw, I'm using Windows 2000.

[decipio]

Also. It doesn't mather which encoder I use, tried huffy (or whatever it's called) M-JPEG, DivX, Uncompressed, mpeg2.

Anybody got a clue?

[Vejita-sama]

What's your CPU usage look like while you capture. Does this happen at all resolution (ie. try lowering it). Once you start dropping frames does it just keeping happening, or more start/stop-ish?

[decipio]

Happends at all resolutions, and it's more start/stop-ish.

[TurboRunner]

Set DMA on your HDD. Make sure your capture drive is optimized. Turn overlay mode off. Unload unneeded programs(like antivirus).

Heres other steps that have been posted by others.
1. Under the Capture menu, choose "Disk I/O...". Increase the Chunk Size to 4 MB or more. The number of "chunks in buffer" should be at least 2, but I get better results with 4

2. Go to Capture->Settings and change the Video Buffer Limit to 50. This should have allievate frame dropping problems. To avoid the 4 gb limit, use either NTFS or you can capture with VirtualDub using segments. In the Capture menu, select Enable Multisegment Capture. Also in the same menu, go to Capture Drives. Click Add Spill Drive. The path is where you are capturing to. Threshold should be 50 mb and priority to 0. Try not to create AVI files smaller than 50 and larger than 1900.

If you still drops frames then here are some questions.

Do you have an agp graphics card or pci if you've got an pci replace it with an agp card that can solve your problem
If you have an AGP graphics card then what pci port do you have your capture card in. Try placing your capture card on a pci port that doesn't share with any other ports eg agp port. try taking out all un-needed card and just have the capture card, sound, and agp graphics card in.

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Happends at all resolutions, and it's more start/stop-ish.
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