Need some Guru help!!!

[Howie]

I use NanoDVR for capturing, which seems to work fine. Sort of. If I capture say a 1 hour show off the TV it starts out fine, no pixelation and audio is in sync. But after about 45 minutes the capture becomes pixelated, and audio is out of sync. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Howie

[Snakebyte1]

Hi..

I'm not familiar with NanoDVR, but there are some generic things you might check. Be sure that there are no background applications that might be distracting the system. Disable your Anti-Virus, screen savers, End Task on any non-essential applications running. I had a stupid screen saver that used to try and kick in and that messed up the end of some of my captures.

Before starting the capture verify your available resources are high, and check what they are after the capture. If they have fallen dramatically then something is eating up memory and not releasing it.

What are your hardware specs?

[Howie]

Athalon 950mHz, with 512 Mb ram, XP Pro. I even have a dedicated 60Gb 7200 RPM HD just for video capture. I was thinking maybe the codec I was using, picvid?? I think. No screensavers, I'll try the shutting down the Virus protection and see if that helps? Thanks, Howie