how many frame drops is normal?

[hoola_loop]

i usually use mmc to capture and have no frame loss.
i just got vdub set up and captured *mothman prophecies* which is about 2 hours long and had a drop of 116 frames. is that good or bad? i would rather 0 frames be dropped.

[Mirror_Image]

I usually don't worry if I drop a few dozen frames at the very start of a capture.

[hkmak]

I never have any frame drop after I change to a larger and faster hard drive. Now for me, "normal" is no frame drop at all.

[circleking]

116 frames seems excessive unless they're all at the beginning.

AVI_IO seems to work well for me. I've dedicated a partition on my hard drive just for capture so I can always have non-fragmented & sector aligned captures. If I'm capturing from satellite I get usually 0 - 2 drops per movie (usually 0). If capturing from less stable source (say older VHS tape) I've had as much as 15. Both my capture resolutions (480x480 & 720x480) perform identically.

[hoola_loop]

i use mmc to capture avi using huff codec with no drops. i guess i just dont have settings set right for vdub. but i must say i dont always get fram drops just occastionally with vdub. anywho i will stick to mmc cause i get just as good quality as with vdub and i guess thats what counts. only reason i used vdub is because i was told by tons of people not to use mmc cause it sucks. oh well i guess im one of the lucky ones it works flawless for.

thanks for the replys guys!! kudos

[tww1]

I sure would like to learn how to setup VD so i dont get many frame loss. I normal get about 60 in a 2Hr recording. I am useing a XP1900 and a XP1700 with 7200 speed HD 80GB busted in 20GB 512 single chip ram ??????????

[hoola_loop]

hi try this site http://www.lukesvideo.com/

dont get me wrong by my above post vdub is one of the best capture editing software there is and i use it all the time. the guide on thet site will give you lots of info on how to set it up and get you familiar and then you can tweak until you get what you want.

[Helmut]

Normal for me is 0 too!

[bolta]

Hey . . .

Yup - "0" is normal for me as well . . . I use VirtualVCR to capture to svcd format, and tmpgenc to encode.

I've been able to do NTSC VHS video --> PAL vcd's for other aussies who post on this board, so I figure everything is (finally) working as it should do!!

Cheers,

B.

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