Hard Drive too slow???

[deymayor]

I have a western digital 30GB 5400 rpm hard drive which i use solely for capturing (AIW 128 pro.) I noticed though that i'm losing too many frames (close to 5%) when capturing SVCD format using VDub. Do i need a higher specs on my hard drive or do i need to tweak some settings on my machine?

[MaDmiZe]

Your hard drive should be good enough...its usally the settings that you capture at that really effect this a lot. Some will not capture at more than anythingX240 without a lot of dropping. But thats no help wanting a SVCD res of 480x480.
I dont have that card or I would give you a specific answer.
Some one will most certainly chime in on this.

[Tommy]

It's hard to say without knowing anything else about your computer.

[Mirror_Image]

It's hard to say without knowing anything else about your computer.

Well said, it might be a P2-233, or it might be an XP2200+/P4-2.53GHz, or somewhere in between. Knowing more is essential, but I'm betting the CPU is a bit on the low side and thus CPU utilization is at 100% and that's still not cutting it (I have to guess, of course).

[deymayor]

all right, i've updated my profile.

[Allan55]

Hi,

I've captured a lot of DV stuff (9:24 minutes takes 2 GB) on a ATA66 5400 rpm 60GB HD without any frame drops. I'd look somewhere else for the problem.

Allan

[Digitizer]

The only thing that I can suggest is to run msconfig.exe from the Start>>Run menu and see what kind of stuff takes away the CPU cycles. I can capture at much larger resolutions without frame drops WITH recompression and my 700 Mhz Athlon.

BTW, VirtualDub comes with an HD benchmarking utility. Tried that?

[Helmut]

Check if the harddrive is primary master or secondary master and not slave after the cdrom or the burner.

[cooj]

If you're running anything, try rebooting, closing vereything down and capture only with VD open. I don't think it's your HD but it is 5400rpm... go get a faster one =)

[Webster]

I have a western digital 30GB 5400 rpm hard drive which i use solely for capturing (AIW 128 pro.) I noticed though that i'm losing too many frames (close to 5%) when capturing SVCD format using VDub. Do i need a higher specs on my hard drive or do i need to tweak some settings on my machine?

Is your HD share the same cable with your CD-RW? if it is then move the CD-RW to the other IDE connection.
Webster.