Dropped Frames

[Ghoulardi]

A newbie question. I am using an ati radeon 64ddr
vivo, an amd athlon 1ghz and winME. Any time I
try to go higher than the "good quality" setting
I start to drop frames. What should I do to stop
this? O/C or upgrade to a faster CPU or perhaps
use a raid for files. I checked the faq and didn't
see anything to help, but maybe I just missed it.

Your help is appreciated.
Thanks

Ghoulardi

[Hiei]

check you harddisk speed ,Memory and video capture setting. try use raid for video capturea nd upgrade your OS to Win2k or Win Xp.

[RaleighNC]

Try to lower your motion estimator (me).

I have a win2000,p2-550, 128meg, 20gb72rpm and aiw-128/32. Mine is set for 21me @480x480 mpeg-2 2.7kbps. While recording, it will drop 2%, but the source file is in-sync (a/v). Then I flask/frameserve/cce to make svcd clips.

[ebaldino]

It´s all about I/O speed.
Make sure your hard drive is fast enough - sustained transfer rates at or over 25MB/s should be good for starters, but try to get an UDMA/100 drive AND controller card... that will surely do it....

...and make sure DMA is enabled for your HD.

rgds
EBaldino

[RaleighNC]

Yeah, DMA is on. And defrag the HD.

[Satella]

i have a p3 800mhz with 128ram and hd 20gb
here droped 1 frame in 3000 frames captured
my capture card is prolink pixel view play tv pro
try configure the frame rate, i using here 29.9798