Newbie - Tons upon tons of dropped frames

[michaelch]

Well, I've tried many guides in the past to capture to Divx (I have no intention of making this video a VCD) with my capture card, and I've always had dropped frames like crazy.

Seeing as I reformatted yesterday, I followed the instructions here to the letter and in a few seconds got more than a 150 dropped frames. This was pretty amazing seeing as previously I got about 1 dropped frame per second, which itself is pretty bad.

My system is:

Intel P4 1.8ghz CPU
Asus P4T mobo (Intel)
256MB RDRAM
WindowsXP OS
GeForce256 DDR video card
Hauppage WinTV PCI (using manufactuer's WindowsXP drivers)
40GB Seagate (ST340016A)

Now I have no clue how I'm supposed to fix this. :( Any advice would be appreciated.

[Craig Tucker]

Have you enabled direct memory access for your hard drive

Craig

[michaelch]

I'm using WindowsXP, and so I don't know how to do that, as it's changed from 9x. I assumed XP enabled it automatically though.

[capman]

Hi, first post. :D

You set DMA mode in Device Manager, on the IDE Controller. (primary and secondary IDE Channel)

On my system DMA was enabled by default.