jittery capture

[gehct]

hello,
I'm captureing vhs using huffy compression @ 29.9 fps with no dropped frames, however I find that the video is very jittery, (shaky) is there any way to correct this???
thanks
I'm running win me pentium 4 1.5 gig 256 meg ram. captureing useing "avi_io"

[stanwebber]

(the fact you are dropping 0 frames is a serious problem in itself) the dead basic troubleshooting step to try in this situation is to check the field order. configure huffyuv to swap fields on playback and see if that solves the problem

[gehct]

hi, thanks for your response, but can you give me a little more detail? I'm not sure how to do this, I convert to mpg by frameserveing from vdub to tmpg, however I"m pretty sure that it's not a conversion issue because when I play the avi file it also has this jitter.
BTW I dont capture in vdub because for somereason with the same exact capture settings, vdut drops a whole pile of frames.
thanks again

[stanwebber]

configure huffyuv in virtualdub by selecting(from memory) video/compression/huffyuv/configure. alternatively, add swap fields to your virtualdub filter list. it is better to drop frames than not drop them; however, if you drop too many this indicates a hardware problem(typically soundcard). 0 dropped frames=progressive audio async. you can turn off video/audio clock synchronization in virtualdub and drop absolutely 0 frames, but this is ignoring the problem