Pinnacle DC10+ video capture blues:

[fisheez]

Okay, anyone know anything about this particular video card?


It's frustrating - very frustrating. It won't let me use a third party codec for capture and won't let me capture at the advertised size of 640 x 480 in either Studio 7 or Virtualdub.

I have to capture at the "TV Cropped" size of 608 x 464 unless I want to lose about 90% of frames.

Making 480 x 480 SVCDs doesn't work real well when your original capture width is only 464 - kinda kills the quality.


ANYHOW, my system:

Celeron II 1 ghz oc'd to 1.25 ghz
PNY GEForce3 ti200 OC'd to 220/500 mhz core/clock
ASUS TUSL2-C Mobo
Intel 815 EP Chipset
512mb PC133 SDRAM
SB Live! 5.1 sound
WD 60 GB 7200 RPM HD
Pinnacle DC10+ Video Capture
... and some other stuff that's the same as everyone else's
Running Windows 98se for the time being.

[laks_14]

you can't use third party codecs , defrag your HD to lose less frames.

[wumbus]

Yup, the DC10plus uses a hardware MJPEG codec, so you'll have to convert to your target codec (Divx, Mpeg, etc) after capture.

I capture 640x480, 2 fields, 6000kbps with my P3-700MHZ, 384MB, ASUS CUBX, 7200 RPM ATA-100 drive just fine. Possible solutions for your dropped frames:

1. Defrag your HD
2. Check to see if your DC10plus is sharing an IRQ
3. Run Pinnacle's "PCI Performance Enhancer" utility (you can d/l this from their S7 support area)

In any case, you should consider switching to AVI_IO for capture with your DC10plus if you're running Win98SE. The link is: http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/

Markus claims to be updating his application to use the newer Directshow API, but until he finishes that effort, AVI_IO will not work on XP/2000