What was my PC doing?

[3_2_DVD]

Hi, how can I find out what software is causing my video capturing to loose frames? I have determined that my capture process will loose 11 consecutive frames exactly 1 hour apart. It does not necessary happen on the hour or half hour (last time traced it back, it must have happened 10 minutes before the hour). Is there some SW logging facility that I can use to trace the culprit? (I am running Window XP home on a 2.4 GHz machine) I have disabled the Ethernet, disabled the virus protection and done a fresh restart of the PC just before the capturing, but I keep on loosing these 11 frames. If it was not for this problem I will have almost perfect capturing - in terms of lost frames that is. Any help will be appreciated

[glockjs]

screen saver?

[johns0]

Depends what capture program you are using,virtualdub will drop frames on purpose to keep the audio/video in sync.

[junkmalle]

Kill all the tasks in the system tray except the clock (disable that too if you want). Then use alt-ctrl-del to bring up the Task Manager. On the Processes tab you can kill almost everything under your username. Don't kill Explorer.exe though (that's the desktop). Don't kill the processes started by SYSTEM unless you know what they are and know you don't need them. You might be able to kill any started LOCAL SERVICES, or NETWORK SERVICES.

[3_2_DVD]

Johns0: Thanks for the reply, I am using Virtual VCR which, as I understand it, will change the Audio sample rate to keep up with the Video. But I will try another program - the thing is that Virtual VCR keeps log of the lost frames - a very nice feature.


glockjs:The screen saver does not come up but it may attempt to do it in the background - will check on that clue - which make me think, it may also be an attempt of Windows to go into some power saving mode or something.

junkmalle: Thanks for the advice - will see what SW I can kill

[canadateck]

Don't kill Explorer.exe though (that's the desktop) .

I always Kill "Explorer.exe", Never have a problem,I find i capture better that way.

[chicola]

If it's not one of the processes that you got running, you can use Filemon ( http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml ) to see which file is used.

[johns0]

One other thing you can do is if you are running winxp is go to control panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer and check on the systems and applications that have been started in the past while.

[chicola]

To see what each Windows task is all about:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

To be aware of all starting programs use this little util: Starter from CodeStuff ( http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/StarterSetup.zip )

[brookelh]

I have a related question: I understand that you need to kill all nonessential stuff before you capture. I even think I can figure out what that stuff is. But how do I set up my computer to do that automatically someway? I don't want to manually do this every time I capture!

[junkmalle]

I have a related question: I understand that you need to kill all nonessential stuff before you capture. I even think I can figure out what that stuff is. But how do I set up my computer to do that automatically someway? I don't want to manually do this every time I capture!

Maybe you could set yourself up a "bare" user account just for capturing.

[daamon]

Kill all the tasks in the system tray except the clock (disable that too if you want). Then use alt-ctrl-del to bring up the Task Manager. On the Processes tab you can kill almost everything under your username. Don't kill Explorer.exe though (that's the desktop). Don't kill the processes started by SYSTEM unless you know what they are and know you don't need them. You might be able to kill any started LOCAL SERVICES, or NETWORK SERVICES.

Sorry for dragging up an old thread - but I think it's justified....

I saw this thread when it was still active and knew of a tool that would be useful for killing processes, but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called. I also knew that I had posted a link to it in a thread in these forums.

Well, it's taken me all this time, but I've finally remembered what it was called: EndItall 2. And here's the details:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1042900#1042900