NO MORE DROPPED FRAMES!!! GODDAMN!!!

[Matteo693]

I don't believe it. I'm bored so I run my computer through "PC Pitstop"...and whaddya know, I find out I should "Enable Write Cache" on my hard drive! (Goto Device Manager, click on Disk Drive/Properties/Policies/...and TICK THAT BLOODY BOX, PAL!).

I have spent months and months tearing my hair out wondering why I drop frames when capturing VHS. I've never seen this tip mentioned in any guides or forum posts (correct me if I'm wrong!?)... I have been resorting to capturing direct to MPEG2 with Ulead VS6 (at quality level 11).

Now I can capture huffyuv avi at 720x576 (hours & hours) with nil dropped frames!!! Incredible. (Haven't tried uncompressed yet, but I'm optimistic! (I'm using VirtualDub, by the way))...

I have often wondered why half of you folk are dropping frames like crazy, and the other half are scratching your heads going "What?"

Maybe this is the reason! A quick research on Google told me that a lot of hard drives come packaged with "Write Caching" disabled. So enable it, and you WON'T drop frames!!!

I'm flabbergasted. In fact, I'm getting drunk right now! And "Night of the Living Dead" is on community TV right now (here in Melbourne)!....so I'm signing out!

Good luck!

[andkiich]

Congratulations! Feels pretty good doesn't it.

[lordsmurf]

I'll add it to the list on my site if it makes you feel better.

[makntraks]

I don't believe it. I'm bored so I run my computer through "PC Pitstop"...and whaddya know, I find out I should "Enable Write Cache" on my hard drive! (Goto Device Manager, click on Disk Drive/Properties/Policies/...and TICK THAT BLOODY BOX, PAL!).

I have spent months and months tearing my hair out wondering why I drop frames when capturing VHS. I've never seen this tip mentioned in any guides or forum posts (correct me if I'm wrong!?)... I have been resorting to capturing direct to MPEG2 with Ulead VS6 (at quality level 11).

Now I can capture huffyuv avi at 720x576 (hours & hours) with nil dropped frames!!! Incredible. (Haven't tried uncompressed yet, but I'm optimistic! (I'm using VirtualDub, by the way))...

I have often wondered why half of you folk are dropping frames like crazy, and the other half are scratching your heads going "What?"

Maybe this is the reason! A quick research on Google told me that a lot of hard drives come packaged with "Write Caching" disabled. So enable it, and you WON'T drop frames!!!

I'm flabbergasted. In fact, I'm getting drunk right now! And "Night of the Living Dead" is on community TV right now (here in Melbourne)!....so I'm signing out!

Good luck!

I believe this setting is a Windoze setting that by default is set to "on".... My understanding is that it is a driver function - not a drive...
Good for you though!
makntraks

[Red96TA]

looks like he was half-drunk when he wrote the post...