Frame loss during capture

[dvdman69]

I have had to reinstall winme on My pc it has 1.7 gig processor 10 gig hard drive, brooktree capture card, agp vga card. it now drops frame every 5 seconds or so during capture any ideas??

[marcusaxavier]

Besides the fact that your OS sucks? Well, with my WinME bashing out of the way, have you tried to shut down any other programs that might be running in the background - such as virus scans and such. Also, did you remember to set your hard drive so that it's (I think it's MMX) enabled? When you reinstalled your capturing software, it might have told you if you did enable it. I could not tell you for certain if it does detect that because I have never used it, just ATI's software.

[dvdman69]

I have had the software installed before only yesterday and it worked fine but now its gone titsup.

[dilligaf]

If you have completed a few captures ok and now you are losing frames it could be your hdd is having to place data in a heavily fragmented area. Try a defrag and try again.
As an upgrade, saving to a 2nd 7200rpm ata100 hdd will also ensure less dropped frames.

[dvdman69]

I have noticed when capturing with virtuadub frame set to 352X288 compression on the processor runs at 100% and then drops frames, before it would run at 30% or so and be fine, Is it possable the standby function of winme is busing the processor as there are only two progs running in the background Explorer and Rundll.

[marcusaxavier]

Is it possable the standby function of winme is busing the processor as there are only two progs running in the background Explorer and Rundll

Shut down the standby function, just in case. Explorer is the Windows OS, so that is fine to be running (otherwise, it'll shut your computer off). I'm not quite sure about Rundll, though. Did you also check your hard drive?

[dvdman69]

how??

[dvdman69]

The hard drive has been formatted, and I have tried to capture to a 40 gig with 100ata 7200 still the same.

[marcusaxavier]

Sorry, it's not MMX, it's DMA. I'm at work right now in front of a WinNT 4.0 computer, so I will have to try and see if I can do this in my head.

Open control panel - system applet. Go to the device manager tab. Click on hard-disk controllers and press properties. Check the Dma-enabled box. Restart

As always, let me know how this works.

[dvdman69]

Brill works great.