Is my system good for capturing high resolution?

[axel_foley99]

Hello.

I'm sure this has been answered before and debated over but I was just curious if the following system would be good enough for capturing high resolution avi.

Genuine Intel Motherboard
Intel P4 1.7 Ghz
512 Mb SDRAM
40 GB Ultra ATA-100 7200 RPM
Ati All in Wonder 128 32 meg ram

I don't know all the specifics about the motherboard but I'm looking at capturing high resolutions on Virtual Dub. I have been doing capturing and encoding for a year or so now but I've never been able to achieve high resolutions in capturing on my PIII 800. It's good enough to do lower resolution capturing but not high. It drops frames big time. I was hoping anyone out there with a similar system could give me an idea of what this new system will do for me. I go to pick it up in a few days.

Thanks.

[Stansell]

I have a similar system (with 1/2 the memory) :

MSI Motherboard
AMD 1.4 Ghz Athelon
256 MB DDRAM
40 GB Ultra ATA-100 7200 RPM
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 32MB RAM

I can capture 720 x 480 / 29.970 FPS using AVI_IO (VDUB also) using either the HuffYUV lossless or PIC MJPEG codec.

I actually used to be able to do the same on my PIII 500 Mhz system as well (same video card and HD ).

Be sure to use a compression codec such as HuffYUV so the hard drive is not overcome with data. The processor should be able to handle the compression without a problem.