avi_io

[maxone]

need some help in tweaking windows xp for video capturing, also i get this error messages with avi_io all the time, SORRY NO MORE I/O BUFFERS AVALIBLE PLEASE RUDUCE DATA RATE. i get that no matter what i do help?

SYSTEM
p3 800

2 hdd's capturing hard drive is split into 2, and on of them has stuff on them, the split into half.

30 gig for capturing split into half
398mb ram
sblive
via chipset
wintv go model 700
video for windows drivers

[vhelp]

maxone,

first, try switching to PREVIEW, instead of OVERLAY.
And, DO NOT WORRY about how the picture looks unstable or if the color
seems to be less. Once you click on the (o) RED record button, the video
should become clearer or more stable instead of shaky or jerky.
But, if you have a slower system, this may not matter. Just ignore it, and
continue recording. However, you may have to turn off PREVIEW as well
by making sure that NO checkmark is showing for OVERLAY and PREVIEW.

If that doen't help, I can't think of anything else at the moment.
I'm in a rush, later.

[Greyhair]

I have found AVI_IO to be buggy in Win XP. Anyone have any substitute suggestions I'm all ears. I was always really happy with it until I switched to xp.

To your question, I would guess you have a driver problem. Try some different driver version for your mobo/cap card and be sure you HDD's are optimized to speed capacity. Turn off both preview and overlay. When I used a 1 ghz piii, I had to disable both to capture.

[snowmoon]

I use AVI_IO under XP. No problems here, I just turn off preview before capture and it works like a charm.

Usually the lowe the data rate means that your CPU or your HD could not keep up with the settings you specified.

What is your...

Capture resolution and format?
Compression codec?
Audio rate?

I have a PIII700/WinTV/btwincap/256MB ram/170GB video editting space