ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon: PLEASE HELP!!!

[Xanadu]

I'm at my wits end!

I have this card, it's installed, it captures audio and video, all is well. I use AVI_IO because it works better than the software that came with the card.

My problem is this: when I capture and play back, the playback has almost a sort of "slow-mo" effect. Sound is nice and clear, I drop MAYBE one frame every 5 minutes on the capture, but something just isn't right. Now, it's not like it moves REALLY slow, it just doesn't look like it's moving at 100% speed, but rather maybe 97% speed. Also, on pans the lines get a little screwy, which someone told me had to do with interlacing.

I've got a Dell Dimension 4300, 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM 80GB hard drive, I think my specs are good enough to handle this. I capture 720x480 to AVI and use Adobe Premiere to edit and TMPGEnc to export to MPG2 so I can burn DVD-Rs. Is it just that this card can't handle it? Any suggestions on a better card, without going broke? I have a DVD-R and at $10/blank I don't want to make a bunch of useless coasters. PLEASE HELP!!!

As a side, it's not my monitor (as I've had people suggest on other forums) because the one DVD-R I did make looks the same on my TV as it did on my monitor.

John D.

[cguida]

Did you get the most up to date drivers?

[spiderman2k1]

Hi I have a AMD 1.8 Xp chip and I get the same thing. I can not do 720*480 avi i drop about 5% frames or so. I have hear if you use Virtualdub it work must better the ati capture software. I have also heard that better ram help's out. Are you useing Rambus ram or SDram? I have seen a post made of a AMD peron who was dropping frames put DDram in and it fixed the problem. But intel chip your stuck with one kind of ram. I think DDRam and Sdram or almost the same kind of ram just got a bost on the speed it has. You might want to get a Dazzle 2 card this card is great for making SVCD and VCD and not haveing to do AVI and renender it back to MPEG1 or MPEG2. I have used both ATI radeon and the dazzle 2 the dazzle 2 rock's. One other thing I just thought of it while i was typeing lol. this help in frame drop some time's. when your pc start up. shut down program's like realplayer and IM ICQ from where the clock is in the start up. now turn on the ATI TV now shut it of. Now hit control alt delete. start from the top and work your way down keep EXplorer and systay and the ati program's running some program may take 10 or more times to shut down just keep on doing it. when ever thing is shut down. do a small record in vcd format now change it back to avi if it still dropping frames stop and do it again if its still doing defrag your hard drive. You might need a faster hard drive may be 7200 rpm or fast. Hope this help's