Capturing with VideoBusII

[XCaLiBrE]

Hi,
I need help with capturing with my Belkin USB VideobusII.
I have:
- AMD 1700+ CPU, 256 Megs of ram
- WindowsXP
- Using virtualdub
- 40 gig HD, IDE 7200RPM - ATA100, spilt into 3 partitions, 2 are Fat32 and the other is NTFS made specifically for capturing footage into. It is 5 gig. Also DMA enabled.

I Capture at 352x240@25fps with no compression for video.
I get a heap of dropped frames maybe 50% are dropped frames.
What is wrong? I have tried everything. Please help me.

[D_Knife]

You used the two magic words
USB and Uncompressed

USB 1.1 - which the Videobus uses is not capable of moving uncompressed video across the USB interface without drops.

Try changing the video mode to yuv2 or almost anything other than 16bit or 24bit, then run this through a codec.
Most video drivers allow you to change this - try it you can't hurt anything

If you are trying to cap uncompressed try using HuffyUV - it is a lossless codec that uses yuv2 data natively -you can find Huffy in the tools section of this web site

Also I checked the Belkin web site for some info on the VideoBus 2 - and unless you are also using a notebook for capture - get yourself a PCI based capture card, you will have less problems - something based on the Conexant / Brooktree BT878 chipset will keep you out of trouble.

Hope this helps even a little bit