Is CPU usage near 100% during capture ok, no dropped frames

[hiflyact]

Hello,

I was wondering if this is a bad sign or nothing to worry about. I'm using iuVCR to capture to avi with PicVideo in a resolution of 480x480. I notice on their graph that during the whole capture the usage of the cpu is at of near the top of the chart. However, there are no dropped frames at all.

Also, I have in the settings to capture at 29.97fps, but when I start the capture, it gradually builds up to 29.97 after about 2 mins or so then stays at about that for the rest of the capture. Is this normal or is there a problem somewhere? The resulting capture looks fine when I watch it/encode it with TMPGEnc.

Here are my specs:

Pentium 3 500 mhz
512 MB Ram
8 MB AGP video
ATA/100 WD 40GB HD 7200rpm

I have all the background apps turned off including antivirus, etc.

Thanks for any insight

[Vejita-sama]

That's kind of high actually, but if depends on the codec/filters you are running. I know several people that used 350Mhz machines to capture at 720x480 (uncompressed) and had no problems. But try to capture to MPEG2...

Anyway, if you're not dropping frames it doesn't really matter.