How much framedrop is acceptable

[Diversion]

I'm using a Pinnacle DVplus to capture from my camcorder. How much framedrop is acceptable? In about 18 minutes of capured video the prog says it has dropped 29 frames.

Is it even possible to get 0 dropped?

[scottb721]

As long as they aren't all in the same place it should be ok.

I use VirtualDub with the HuffyUV codec.
I defraged the hard drive and kept doing it until all files were moved to one end to the drive.
This allowed me to get 10-15 mins with only 2 or 3 dropped frames.
My CPU was only running about 20%.
The frames that did get dropped occured when the capture file was being fragmented during the capture. I had 38Gb of unfraged disc space. I don't know why it HAD to frag the file but it did.

[ptmurphy]

I use Pinnacle and have captured an hour + of video with no dropped frames. This is to a defragmented, dedicated drive.