How to accelerate my video card?

[ro22ko22]

I have Inspiron m700 notebook ( Windows XP, Pentium M 1.7Gig, 752Mb RAM) and K-World PCMCIA TV card what allows to record from TV to Hard Drive.
But recording comes out like with short pauses every few seconds. I was told that it’s because my video card is just 64Mb and I need at least 96Mb. But because the video card is integrated into motherboard I cannot upgrade it.
Now my question is how (or, with what software) may be there are soft that can accelerate my video card, and if it could be done will it make the recording good enough? May be the issue is not in video card?
My notebook has the video card:
Device Type: Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Video Adapter
Device Description: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller
Chip Type: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Controller
DAC Type: Internal
Installed Drivers: ialmrnt5 (6.14.10.4396)
Video Memory Size: 64 MB

[edDV]

May be the issue is not in video card?

Most likely the video card section is fine. Are you saying it won't play a DVD without choking? Or it won't show live TV without choking? If so the video output might be an issue.

The suspicion falls to the K-World PCMCIA TV card and/or the capture software. That card has no hardware MPeg encoding. The laptop must carry the load with computation.

Uncompressed capture may be possible but that is always subject to dropouts when using a single drive laptop. Software MPeg2 capture may be possible but again a single drive laptop isn't the best platform.

Your card is probably OK for watching TV but maybe not an adequate recording solution. What you should have purchased is a tuner with hardware encoder (no CPU load + low HDD load) like the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 or similar.

[guns1inger]

We use Toshiba laptops with the intel gfx chipsets. Many of them have a problem trying to display on the LCD and through an external monitor at the same time. Very jerky. Changing the output to a single device - eg. your TV - can improve the smoothness of playback.

If the issue is a recording issue then even the graphics card wont make any difference.